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From the point of beginning (POB) in Independence, Misouri according to the two marker stones placed in 1831 the diagonal of the Great 1500 mile Square is bearing N 11.75 degress E - this is half of 23.5 degrees which is the angle of tilt of Earth's axis to the Sun's. The angular orientation resembles the layout of the District of Columbia. Coincidentally, the western perimeter aligns with the Nevada-California State line.
The angular orientation is an architectural advantage; exposure to the sun on all sides avoids temperature extremes which cause undue expansion and contraction � this will extend the life of the buildings; roads and streets will not go directly into the blinding light of the rising and setting sun; open buildings will catch the prevailing breeze better.
Jefferson's township scheme adopted by Congress in 1787 for public lands would apply in principle but would follow the overall angular guidelines . This artful method of orientation was used by surveyors previously to avoid confusion of survey lines with curving parallels and converging meridians - for example see county survey lines on maps of Eastern States and in Texas. It is an economy in buildings oriented to give even distribution of sunlight to all sides. On the road, it is a safety factor over driving into the blinding evening and morning sun. A neat unclutered order of perfectly square guidelines simplify and facilitate the process of design and planning. Absolute accuracy may be obtained by measuring on the mathematical surface of a sphere (see KYMAK formulas) and projecting this onto the USGS North American Datum elipsoid, giving the normal perpendicular latitude and longitude coordinates of any point in North America.
The KYMAK Datum sphere is positioned to form a dome over and beyond the Great Square area and most of the USA, Canada and Mexico. The four corners of the Great Square are positioned to be as close to the topography as possible to economize construction cut and fill along the perimeter. This touches the mountain tops in Nevada and is only a few feet above the water off the coast of North Carolina but is about a mile above the ground in Canada and Mexico due to the ellipsoidal shape of Earth and to the high mountains of Nevada and Montana where it would cut into the terrain. Fill would be architectural (see illustration).
Regional subdivisions are 83 1/3 miles square thru-out except along a 96 mile-wide zone around the perimeter of the Square where they are 84 miles x 83 1/3 miles. Local (municiple) units are 11 19/21 miles square except in the outer perimeter where they are 11 19/21 x 12 with one-mile square sections (including 1/21 mile overlap at edges) measured from unit centers to coordinate urban design and planning. Thus there are 36 sections in each of the four quadrants (as six mile square townships) in each local (municiple) unit. Following the KYMAK Mod el City scheme, sections are subdivided by 880 feet blocks with one acre parcels of 198 x 220 feet except in the Broadacre City zone where minimum lot sizes are 165 x 264 feet. Smaller increments for parceling land are 11 feet square so that lots might be 22 x 88 or 44 x 176 or 66 x 209 or 165 x 264, etc. This system also conforms to the cubit (or long cubit which is a cubit and a handbredth) of 1.76 feet - there are 3000 cubits per mile.
Thus any location has a legal description by region, unit, quad (township), section, block, parcel and lot number, For example, in this region one city hall was located by the description - 55:8:NE:32:6:6:0 (no lot number). Region #1 is south of a line roughly parallel to the shoreline of lake Erie. Numbering is counter-clockwise.
Land Use Policy
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Public and private land banks may be desirable. Such land could be leased or rented by the owner as needed to individuals and groups (tax free, if in the public domain). This may serve to restore fair access to and orderly development of idle land. This would generate revenue in the form of royalties to the owner. Physical planning and zoning -- site selection by design -- provides for an abundance of alternate sites for industrial, commercial, residential and public use. The right of possession is held sacred. This is based on the laissez-faire economics of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson's township scheme for the subdivision of counties adopted by the first Congress of the United States is preserved in principle although laid out on an angle as the District of Columbia is. A municipal unit is composed of four townships. State law regulating regional and municipal planning would apply.
SVT ~ most fit resource :
The Site Value Tax was proposed by the creators of the United States Constitution as the �most fit resource� for State and Local Government revenue. The sales tax was to be the source of revenue for the National Government.
Transportation
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"Broadacre City" provides for current modes of transportation with some innovations. Within the 8 1/3 mile square, quite and gentle modes of transportation such as small, slow motion, land, water and air craft (like blimps) are recommended. High speed vehicles may go underground. Existing technology is far advanced - 4,000 mph vacuum tube trains are possible; that would be located along the 5280 mile perimeter. Present land, air and water modes can also be accommodated. Pedestrians should have access to all public roads and easements within limits of safety and courtesy.
Transportation is designed to enhance diversity and freedom of choice.
And thou, America!
Comprehensive Plan
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Major development is along the outer 96 mile-wide perimeter from the 6000 mile perimeter (blue line on drawing) The orange line is the main transportation route and industrial area. For drawing click on links below:
Western United States
Eastern United States
Coordinates of any point may be computed using KYMAK parametric datum transformation FORMULAS. Confirming iterations by US Dept. of Interior/ USGS (about 1988 by John Snyder).
Clean energy
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A song of the rolling earth
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"When the materials are all prepared, the architects shall appear.
I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail! I announce them and lead them;
130 I swear to you they will understand you, and justify you;
I swear to you the greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all, and is faithful to all;
I swear to you, he and the rest shall not forget you�they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they;
I swear to you, you shall be glorified in them."
Walt Whitman (1819�1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
Carol of Words
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Country Boys Can Survive
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1833 Plat of Zion (For six-mile square Township Centers)
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE PLAT OF THE CITY OF ZION
An explanation of the plat of the city of Zion, sent to the brethren in Zion, the 25th of June, 1833:
The General Plan of the City of Zion.
THE plat contains one mile square; all the squares in the plat contain ten acres each, being forty rods square. You will observe that the lots are laid off alternately in the squares; in one square running from the south and north to the line through the center of the square; and in the next, the lots run from the east and west to the center line. Each lot is four perches in front and twenty back, making one half of an acre in each lot, so that no one street will be built on entirely through the street; but on one square the houses will stand on one street, and on the next one, another, except the middle range of squares, which runs north and south, in which range are the painted squares. The lots are laid off in these squares, north and south, all of them; because these squares are forty perches by sixty, being twenty perches longer than the others, their greatest length being east and west, and by running all these squares, north and south, it makes all the lots in the city of one size.
The Blocks Set Aside for Temples.
The painted squares in the middle are for public buildings. The one without any figures is for store-houses for the Bishop, and to be devoted to his use. Figure first is for temples for the use of the presidency; the circles inside of the squares, are the places for the temples. You will see it contains twelve figures, two are for the temples of the lesser Priesthood. It is also to contain twelve temples.
The whole plot is supposed to contain from fifteen to twenty thousand people: you will therefore see that it will require twenty-four buildings to supply them with houses of worship, schools, etc.; and none of these temples are to be smaller than the one of which we send you a draft. This temple is to be built in the square marked figure 1; and to be built where the circle is which has a cross on it on the north end.
Location of Lands for the Agriculturist.
South of the plot where the line is drawn, is to be laid off for barns, stables, etc., for the use of the city; so that no barns or stables will be in the city among the houses; the ground to be occupied for these must be laid off according to wisdom. On the north and south are to be laid off the farms for the agriculturist, and sufficient quantity of land to supply the whole plot; and if it cannot be laid off without going too great a distance from the city, there must also be some laid off on the east and west.
Zion a Group of Cities.
When this square is thus laid off and supplied, lay off another in the same way, and so fill up the world in these last days; and let every man live in the city, for this is the city of Zion. All the streets are of one width, being eight perches wide. Also, the space round the outer edge of the painted squares, is to be eight perches between the temple and the street on every side. No one lot, in this city, is to contain more than one house, and that to be built twenty-five feet back from the street, leaving a small yard in front, to be planted in a grove, according to the taste of the builder; the rest of the lot for gardens; all the houses are to be built of brick and stone. The scale of the plot is forty perches to the inch.
Joseph Smith 1833
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The Squeeze; Cities Without Space
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