Money coming into the community flows out again quickly. . Money coming into the community is recirculated using community-based commercial and financial institutions such as credit unions and cooperatives. Outward physical order conceals inner social disintegration and alienation. Anarchistic, jumbled or even decaying facade conceals a well-functioning and complex social system. Plan relies on numbers, dollars, and aggregated phenomena.
Plan relies on individual experiences, stories, mutual hopes, and dreams.
Plan is skewed heavily towards presumed economic results. Social and cultural consequences are downplayed or ignored. Plan has a holistic design including everything from the economy to the environment and from cutting crime to embellishing culture. Experts are outsiders selected by the city government. Experts come from, or are selected by, the community itself.