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Village Square |
Historically,
the village square is a central meeting point of the emerging community.
It is an open space for a weekly traveling market to fill one day
a week for trading various goods by horse and cart. At the bottom
is a cenotaph, at the top is the church, symbolically the place where
marriage takes place. Marriage between two people, two families and
two halves of the community coming together in union. Like in business,
this union is what shapes the village politically as well as architecturally
and over time may create a town or even a city. So the village becomes
the micro-level and the city represents the macro-level but both evolve
around the 'seed' - the square. We understand that "central London"
refers to the centre of a metropolis and transport links are organized
to get 10 million in and out of the hub. In a village community of
less than 800 congregated around the square in houses built with their
own hands, the only transport required is their feet.
Over a period of many years the village square is eventually surrounded
by large buildings occupied by various businesses and services to
support the community. The church and the cenotaph still exist but
they are now joined by Banks, Hairdressers, Pubs, Restaurants, Doctors,
Butchers, Architects, Bakers, Green Grocers, Opticians, Insurance
Brokers, Solicitors, News agents, Tailors, Take Aways and of course
The Police. A modern, civilized utopia around the village square.
All the above businesses and services are randomly arranged around
the village square. The only mainstay is the church at the top and
the cenotaph at the bottom. This shows the village is religious and
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| If
the village square is used as a metaphor for the screen then Telepress
would reorganize the village micro-level businesses and services into
the four corners of the screen in the following way: |
Social
Control
Barber
'A Cut Above' Hairdressers
The Bulls Head Public House
The British Legion & Snooker Club
The English Restaurant
The Coach & Horses Public House
The Parish Church
Economics
National Westminster Bank
Barclays Bank
HSBC Bank
Forbouys Newspaper Shop
The Duxbury General Store
Tailor
The Bus Stop
Ice Cream Tourist Shop
Gift Shop
The Spar Supermarket
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Political
Organisation
The Public Toilets
The Chemist & Doctors Surgery
The Fish & Chip Shop
The Chinese Take Away
The Architects
The Butchers
Optician
Birketts Bakery
Health Food Shop
Baker
Baker
The Green Grocers
The Cross Keys Hotel
The Police Station
Education
The Solicitors
The Insurance Brokers
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This
micro-level map gives you an idea of how Telepress would organize
businesses and services on a macro-level. Unlike the FTSE Global Classification
System, Telepress subdivides into meeting ten basic human needs (Need
Oriented Filtration) rather than by Industry, Supersector, Sector
and Subsector. Today, if you need a plumber you'll pick up The Yellow
Pages and check alphanumerically in an index. The yellow book in your
hand should be local (micro-level) not global (macro-level). Telepress
should be just as easy to pick up and satisfy your immediate need
if the index is one of four corners of a square - your screen!
Incidentally, if Telepress is an idiosyncratic classification
theory then so is the FTSE - which is overseen and organised by a
council. |
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