<aside> ☝ Salt Cross Garden Village (SCGV) is a 2,200-home development in Oxfordshire (England) covering 63 hectares of land.
Comprised of a mix of tenures, with half the dwellings affordable, it is one of the more advanced of the UK Government's 44 'Garden Communities Programme' sites.
SCGV is coordinated as a Distributed Cooperative Organisation (DisCO). Membership and governance make use of the affordances of distributed technologies, in order to lighten administrative load via automation. Active participation in SCGV’s running should not be limited to the time wealthy. Longer-term, participatory governance is incentivised and compensated via a complementary currency. Participatory budgeting fosters literacy and experience in democratic management, and the creation of a local currency facilitates community wealth.
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