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Summary Preview of HT

↓ HT Single Family Features Comparison ↓ HT Multifamily Indoors ↓↓





CONTENTS

Dr. Flanders Hometown Neighborhood Design (HT) Summary

PAGE CONTENT PAGE NUMBER Orientation to HT

Front Page HT Introduction 1 HT Basics Page 2

Summary Preview of HT 3 CONTENTS—this page 4 Single-family Outdoors HT

HT Higher Density and Basic Concepts 5 HT Variations for the Outdoors Version 6 Graphic Executive Summary, More HT Variations 7 Nested Original Lower Density HT; International Expat Turnover 8 More Pictures of HT 9 Multifamily HT Indoors HT Multifamily Value added Basic$ Page 10

HT Multifamily Basics Page 11 Multifamily HT Site Plan 12

Multifamily HT Indoors Schematic 13 The Magic of Bringing a Real “Third Place” Indoors and Nearby 14 Café Room Possibilities 15

Do Your Own Survey 16-17 References 18-19 Appendices

Further Possibilities & Innovations for the Café Room 20 Save the Family Farm 21 Original HT Theory 22

Multifamily Indoors HT Theory 23-24 The Last Word 25





Multifamily Manufactured Housing HT Downtown





NESTED ORIGINAL LOWER DENSITY HT

LIKELY EVEN BETTER WITH HIGHER DENSITY HTs

INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVES AND BUILDERS—EXPAT TURNOVER HT can help you reduce your expat turnover problem. How? Expat turnover usually involves inadequate socialization of employee family and friends. Multifamily

HT Indoors below provides a “Third Place” tailor-made for optimal socialization for spouses, children, and friends. Small-town hospitals I JPF have seen recruiting physicians paid almost as much attention to spouse recruiting as to doctor recruiting.

Why? Lonely and or dissatisfied families do not stick around for long→turnover, a big expense. HT helps a lot. Shahid et al. (2012) pointed out the expat dissatisfaction problem and made a nice start researching it in Saudi Arabia.

How much? Almalki et al. (2012) found Quality of Work Life (QWL) explained 26% of the variance in turnover intention in Saudi Arabia. Given that personal quality of life is at least as important as QWL, we can estimate at least an equal effect stems from personal socialization, precisely what HT facilitates.





Multifamily HT Site Plan

58 3-story buildings on 28 Acres

38 Units/acre--------------total 1,044 units And every single residence faces a park of 73x675 feet!





MULTIFAMILY HT INDOORS SCHEMATIC

REVOLUTIONIZES BY ↑ BASIC HUMAN NEEDS

Multifamily HT Indoors NOTE: Drawing above is highly schematic. The Café Room must be customized ➢ Could easily be ¼ this size ➢ Could be located on every third or fifth floor

The MAIN IDEA is that for every multifamily building, there is a unique optimum size for a Café Room that adds maximum value.





THE MAGIC OF BRINGING A REAL “THIRD PLACE” INDOORS AND NEARBY

Critical importance of the “Third Place.” First place is home, second work, and third

place where people can be with others in public: Coffee shop or hookah, Café , town square, soda fountain, mall, general store, schoolyard, book store, club, barber shop, shops, pub, and many others—usually casual, often inexpensive to build, essential but usually ignored by builders; present in all great cities and neighborhoods (Oldenburg, 1989). Good third place → value ↑↑↑.

Can we bring HT indoors? Yes, make available a nearby wonderful Café Room .

➢ Keep size down, expenses same or less, value goes up. ➢ The Good Old Days come alive with a real community. ➢ Give every resident a “Third Place” near their door, rain or shine, day and night. ➢ Deliver an indoor park or family room--a fantastic amenity. ➢ Provide kids of all ages an instant place to relax and play. ➢ Get the old folks, kids, and tired workers out of the weather. Ask yourself what % of homebuyers’ decisions are based on perceived community. Major.

Exactly how do we deliver Third Place features into HT Indoors? ➢ Furnish casual inexpensive overstuffed sofas, moveable chairs, games. ➢ Install 2 major focal points to instantly create leisure atmosphere

o Gazebo with floor raised one small step with ramp, can be just a nice frame o Awning over serving area for food and drink

➢ Outfit modest lighting and design for casual atmosphere. Many Starbucks do this. ➢ Build in the 4 social zones. ➢ Size the place medium, never tiny or huge, but just right in the middle—optimum size. ➢ Arrange optimum size to serve Café Room to serve 1-5 floors. ➢ Sit back as optimum size Café Room also maximizes profit, a win-win situation





Café Room Possibilities Recent research shows everyday socialization generally brings

as much happiness as high dollar experiences & things, so café room furnishings need not be deluxe.

HT Multifamily Indoors buildings often have children, so it must be fun for kids too! EDUTAINMENT is entertainment that teaches, such as these surfaces.





DO YOUR OWN SURVEY AND TEST OUT CUSTOMERS’ PREFERENCES

PRINT OUT THESE NEXT 2 PAGES AND DO YOUR OWN





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THOSE SEEKING THE ACTUAL EVIDENCE AND SCHOLARLY DETAILS,

CONTACT DR. FLANDERS FOR THE “LONG SCHOLARLY PAPER” SIMILAR TO HIS PATENT DOCUMENTATION ABOVE, FLANDERS (2004). ALSO SEE HIS WEBSITE: www.drflandershometown.com



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Further Possibilities & Innovations for the Café Room Limited Customization

➢ Customize each Café Room using input from people who know more than experts about their needs—people who will live there. Think paint and a few furnishings.

➢ Enlist initial residents for ideas subject to developer approval. They’ll make us money. ➢ If handled properly this process can provide superior customization, emotional

investment in the residence, cooperation, socialization, and beginnings of bonding. ➢ Social psychology research from the 1940s shows a common task is the best way to

produce cooperation. Dirt-cheap sound insulation for the Café Room

Staggered wall studs with insulation weaving between produces sound reduction rivalling highly those in expensive radio and sound studios.

Providing for three generations in a multifamily building Given a choice, likely 10-15% of families will choose and pay more to provide one

somewhat separate room for an elderly parent. Builders can fit one bedroom with a door opening out to the Café Room for easy conversion to a studio for an elderly parent--good company, nearby to see they’re OK, and maybe even a baby sitter

With the handy setup option to the right, the builder prepares by simply installing two water inlets and a sink drain during construction into the bedroom of a few units which adjoin the Café Room . If a buyer wants this indoor granny shack elder cottage, management just wheels in the portable kitchen to complete the studio and reduce turnover for some residents.

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Save the Family Farm In 2005 Dr. Flanders created the graphic below to help save the American family

farm. He predicted that rural living near and personally participating in agriculture would draw a healthy minority of people. Business Week’s article “It’s a beautiful day in the Agrihood” in its March 2-8, 2015, issue financially validated this prediction big time.





Original HT Theory

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. What HT does for you the customers: Developer, builder, municipality, homebuyer. ➢ Gives you options to fit the variety of market populations ➢ HT adds 11-22% value to housing by its design alone, says the market research in 4 cities. ➢ Dr. Flanders can guarantee no competition, as HT is protected by a strong utility patent, so

no one can build anything even close until 2021 in areas where HT is licensed. ➢ No other design can compete with it 2/3 of the time: Market research showed 71% of

REALTORS® (in Houston HAR, Jackson, MS, Madison, WI, and Vicksburg, MS) chose HT over the other two designs combined--(a) sprawl and (b) small town/village/new urbanism.

➢ No other design can offer the developer a better competitive edge in tight money times. 2. Target market populations of homebuyers ➢ Families ➢ Empty nesters & retirees ➢ Younger singles & couples ➢ International expat workers, especially those with families ➢ Employees seeking to live nearby their employment

3. Why does HT work better than competing designs? ➢ Dr. Flanders reverse-engineered HT from people→meets the 3 basic human needs better 1. Safety: Boundaries everywhere, no traffic inside, defensible space, “eyes on the street” 2. Socialization: All housing faces a big park bounded by a U-shaped block creating instant

community→a real place. People buy housing for community. Wholesome hangouts for all. 3. Serenity: Peace and beauty: HT is a park. ➢ HT finally solves the problem of mixing traffic and pedestrians. ➢ HT squeezes out all those little slivers of unused land around houses and gives back the gift

big time out front with big beautiful open spaces vs. “take the short-term money and run.” ➢ HT all but solves the builder’s dilemma of optimizing open space, including Third Places. ➢ Prettier and safer than new urbanism--NO traffic inside—NONE--park at entrance, big park

fronts all housing, better defensible space, more effective semi-private & semi-public zones ➢ Brings to life most of the “the good old days” when and where they were really that way

4. What does HT require? ➢ 10+ acres of most any shape of buildable land ➢ Most any price range and style of housing, from double-wides to near-mansions ➢ Costs the same or a bit less than conventional designs; meets IBC and IFC Codes, see p. 6

5. What does it look like? ➢ HT looks like the town square or park in picturesque small-town USA, and like villages

around the globe, only every residence faces the park. ➢ When you stand in it, you see two U-shaped blocks making a huge 73’x675’park. ➢ Includes a “Main Street” pedestrian promenade from top to bottom, sidewalks linking

everywhere, Neighborhood Square Park, Bandstand Gazebo, benches, no way to get hit by a car, to name a few.





➢ Like the Norman Rockwell painting you sometimes wish you could jump into

MULTIFAMILY INDOORS HT THEORY

A) Importance—Why is neighborhood design so important? i) When you expressly reverse engineer any product to better satisfy basic

human needs, you also add value, and everyone wins. ii) All target populations win including local employees--higher quality of

life→better morale→productivity→ higher retention→lower turnover. B)What Hometown Neighborhood Design (HT) is and is not

i) Is a long-term cost saver and increaser of ROI—Return on Investment ii) Is a unique way to boost quality of life and likely medical health iii) Is an arrangement of the neighborhood iv) Is a way to beat the competition v) Is consistent with existing construction vi) Is not an added expense — done right, HT Indoors increases ROI vii) Is not the inside architecture of residences themselves viii) Is not design of whole towns or regions

C)Why is HT usually better? i) Uses new human factors view from outside the box by Dr. Flanders, who

draws from his two doctorates in psychology, writing articles, authoring a major book Practical Psychology and loneliness research, professorships for 16 years, practice of clinical psychology for 33 years, studies of behavioral architecture, input from local developers, patenting HT

ii) Creates prototypes to better satisfy the 3 basic human needs: Safety, socialization, and serenity: (a) Built-in are the wonders of U-shaped three-sided blocks, instantly

creating a bounded place ála Raymond Unwin, architect of the Garden City Movement; Dr. Flanders spent many hours with Walter Creese, editor of reissue of Unwin’s classic Town Planning in Practice, when Walter was the world’s greatest living expert on the subject. Walter was also cited as one of five luminary influencers of town planning in





Paradise Planned, the encyclopedia magnum opus by Stern et al. (2013, p. 13).

(b) Embeds the 4 necessary social zones of living space (1) Private (2) Semi-private (3) Semi-public (4) Public

(c) Demands always including a “Third Place,” an essential element of great cities and strong neighborhoods (cf. Oldenburg’s classic work 1989, 1991): First home, second work, and then the third place, where people can be with others in public: The coffee shop or hookah, Café , town square, soda fountain, mall, general store, schoolyard, book store, club, barber shop, shops, pub, and many others--feels casual, can cost little to build, but usually ignored by builders. Big mistake!

(d) Keeps best elements of prior design including some new urbanism, village design throughout the ages, and historic military architecture

iii) Research surveys in 4 cities shows HT design increases value of the same housing 11-22% on the basis of HT’s arrangement alone. The REALTORS® also preferred Hometown 71% over the other 2 designs combined (a. sprawl/conventional b. small town/village/new urbanism).

iv) HT design adapts to most housing types and sites. v) Optional housing for elders along HT’s “Main Street” pedestrian

promenade, or elder cottages and carriage houses out back—all add value. The age wave is not coming—it’s here now!

vi) You can find more pictures and highly technical details of Hometown on Dr. Flanders website www.drflandershometown.com by clicking on the home page buttons for (a) HT Patent (Patent No. 6688052) at upper left of the home page (b) HT Details and technical description of the behavioral science

employed in and undergirding Hometown Neighborhood Design HT (c) And call or email me if you wish






THE LAST WORD

LATEST RESEARCH Loneliness damages medical health more than obesity!

Better human contact improves medical and mental health.

LATEST Q&A Do all HT Single Family principles apply to HT Multifamily? No. Must all HT site plans and building designs be customized? Yes.

Do all HT designs add value and ROI? Done right, yes.

OTHER HT DESIGNS? You have just gone through the latest HT Summary focusing

mostly on physical design. Are there other HT designs? YES.

HT social design and financial design are included with licenses and/or consulting as free options.

They are almost as good.

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