KYMAK architectural site selection
Name: KYMAK agent : douglas36601@yahoo.com
AL 36601-0534 United States of America
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CONTENTS:
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Introduction
Background
Site Selection
Model City
Projects
Formulas
Summary
blog
Design Principles
Implementation
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American Democracy was founded on the principle of the sovereignty of the individual. With his insight as an architect, Thomas Jefferson observed, "The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body." - Notes on Virginia p. 291 et seq.(other). Over the past 100 years or so we have gradually moved into large cities; while this arrangement gives seeming economic security, it compromises the sovereignty and liberty of the citizen and makes one tend to rely more and more on government for jobs and services in a confusing kind of feudal dependency which can eventually reduce the people to chains and slavery under a despotic government. Forms of Feudalism in big city Government are in diametrical opposition to the Federal Republic our U.S. Constitution gave us in 1789 - which is one reason we hear anti-federalist big city politicians complaining about the Federal Government. Cities can be designed so that the independence of living on the land can also be assured; those who will be farmers can be, with their small farms integrated into the fabric of the city. Cites thus become economically self sufficient. This form of city will restrain the power of government over the lives of His Majesty the Citizen and will enhance individual liberty and security; such is the basis of the KYMAK concept which is dedicated to the proposition that government with the consent of the governed shall not perish from the earth.
"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Thomas Jefferson, architect
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VISIONS
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21st Century
"And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, 750,000 reeds (1500 miles)."
Illustrations:
Eastern States 42USCode Section 4502(b)
Western States
42USCode Section 5301(b)
Mobile Region
Alabama Code: 11-85-4
Sourthern Region
Center Region
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1st Century
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17th Century
"In the eyes of the Puritans this was the peculiar opportunity of New England. Why not for once see what true orthodoxy could accomplish Why not in one unspoiled corner of the world declare a truce on doubts, on theological bickering. Here at last men could devote their full energy to applying Christianity -- not to clarifying doctrine but to building Zion."
Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Americans - The Colonial Experience, Chapter One.
Corruption in the market place
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19th Century
"Thou shalt ask and it shall be revealed unto you in my own due time where the New Jerusalem shall be built." (44:47)
"And thus saith the Lord your God...the place which is now called Independence (Missouri) is the center place"... (57:3)
"I have many times asked the question, where is the man that knows how to lay the first rock for the wall that is to surround the New Jerusalem or the Zion of God on the earth...He has called upon us to do this work; and if we will let Him work by, through, and with us, He can accomplish it.
Brigham Young, April 17,1870
Journal of Discourses 13:313
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Self Reliance
"The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished. It was in his own mind that the artist sought his mo del. It was an application of his own thought to the thing to be done and the conditions to be observed. And why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic mo del. Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought, and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people, the habit and form of the government, he will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also."
Emerson
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American Democracy, in its myriad personalities, in factories, work-shops, stores, offices through the dense streets and houses of cities, and all their manifold sophisticated life must either be fibred, vitalized, by regular contact with out-door light and air and growths, farm-scenes, animals, fields, trees, birds, sun-warmth and free skies, or it will certainly dwindle and pale.
Whitman
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And hail, to the man whose abode is
Where in a town the country pursuits with the city are blended.
On him lies not the pressure that painfully hampers the farmer,
Nor is he carried away by the greedy ambition of cities.
Goethe
Polyhymnia line 30-34
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This enterprise is the professional and ethical responsibility of architects, and they have the legal and moral support of the people in various statutes at all levels of government; architects may not be trained to understand these laws, but implementation is not a forlorn hope because the general public is informed and duly motivated to demand something better than what we have now. KYMAK can supply this demand which has been a practical and technical impossibility. It is a revolutionary concept but one that can be accomplished peaceably.
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I think if we (architects) were to wake up and take a good look at ourselves, as ourselves without trying to pass the buck without trying to blame other people for what really is our own shortcoming and our own lack of character we would be an example to the world that the world needs now. We wouldn't be pursuing a cold war. We would be pursuing a great endeavor to plant, rear, and nurture a civilization. And we would have a culture that would convince the whole world. We'd have all the Russians in here on us, working for us - with us, not afraid that we were going to destroy them or destroy anybody else. It's because of cowardice and political chicanery, because of the degradation to which we have fallen - as men". 
Frank Lloyd Wright - excerpt from 1949 AIA Gold Medal
acceptance speech.
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;
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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We really have nothing to fear if we follow the laws of orderly development. In his Broadacre City concept, see The Living City, c. 1958, Wright noted that the best defense against weapons of mass destruction would be the kind of decentralized city he envisioned, and as KYMAK demonstrates on these web pages. YHWH provides
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Spiritual Laws
"Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment. Then you put all gainsayers in the wrong. Then you are the world, the measure of right, of truth, of beauty. If we will not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work, the society, letters, arts, science, religion of men would go on far better than now, and the heaven predicted from the beginning of the world, and still predicted from the bottom of the heart, would organize itself, as do now the rose, and the air, and the sun."
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Wealth
"Wealth has its source in applications of the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe, up to the last secrets of Art. Intimate ties subsist between thought and all production; because a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor." (Intelligence is capital)
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And thou, America!
Thou too surroundest all
Embracing, carrying, welcoming all, Thou too, by pathways broad and
new,
Approach the Ideal
The measured faiths of other lands the grandeurs of the past,
Are not for Thee, but grandeurs of Thine own;
Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,
All in all to all.
Transcribed from Walt Whitman by FLW.
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POB
By law the seat of government must be located near the center of population. KYMAK's point of beginning (POB) is near the center of population now. It was marked prophetically to be the future seat of government in 1831 and is now a National Historical Site. Relocation of the seat of government to Independence, Missouri was suggested by City Planners and by President Truman during his term of office. The two stones placed on the site in 1831 (enlarged view) are on an angle bearing North 11.75 degrees East which is the diagonal of the square - this is a builders or surveyors device to determine orientation of the building and all building projects within the city. It applies to the 1500-mile square and by extension to the infrastructure of our entire nation. One goal of KYMAK is to relocate the seat of government from Washington, DC (the center of population in 1800) to Missouri (the center of population in the year 2000) around an orderly and systematic plan as proscribed by law. Rather than traditional helter-skelter haphazard development, future development is so coordinated and interrelated that planning guidelines for any size or type of project whether a garden or landscape layout, a house, an office building, a factory, government center, a church, a road, a street, or a subdivision, etc., may begin at any point anywhere in the country.
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INTRODUCTION
This website is about the Cause of Architecture and the problems of City Planning. References to Scripture are purely coincidental to give credit where credit is due. The great American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright in his treatise on City Planning said Art, Science and Religion are inseparable parts of a whole. It was after 20 years of research that I found the solution to the problems of Urban Design and Planning was in two future cities described in Scripture; answers to all the problems of life in the Universe no matter how simple or complex the problem are in Scripture - no wonder this great book has such universal appeal.
When I became aware of the problem in 1957, City Planning experts said no one could design a city. They admitted they had to fake it in order to please the politicians who demanded it of them; now, it has become a tradition that makes the law of no effect. City leaders need a comprehensive master plan to get federal funding. The city planning profession was a well intended creation of the banking industry from the 1920's. Bankers as land owners had assumed the site-selection function but without the knowledge and skill that was vested in architects by virtue of education and training. Most Architects neglected this function due to its complexity and because they could not make a living in competition with the banking industry. Now, everyone is in so deep and so entangled that it is practically impossible to get out. I avoided that simply by finding some other way to make a living. Each week I spent three days as a temporary worker in a wide variety of tasks; the remaining three days I spent in libraries doing research.
Legislation prohibiting land owners from subordinating the role of Architects in the site selection process would effect Banks and others in the site selection business. The KYMAK plan would give coordinated guidelines to property owners that would lead to orderly and systematic development required by laws already on the books. This issue can best be resolved on a National level by the power of Congress to regulate commerce among the Several States - a power generally usurped by the States; one step to recovering this power would be for Congress to adopt the KYMAK plan as the basis of current Federal funding of State and Municipal building projects such as highways and urban and community development.
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Thomas Jefferson
"It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in convulsions." - August 1776
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POWER
"All successful men have agreed in one thing, they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law"
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Last updated 10/14/2009
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