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What is Distributed Metropolitan Design®?
Distributed Metropolitan Design®(DMD) is an evolution of traditional urban and regional planning methods. It integrates use of information and communications (ICT) infrastructure as a critical building block for economic and environmental sustainability. While ICT advancements have fostered monumental changes, globally and individually, community development efforts have remained concentrated on traditional methods and 20th century economic development and infrastructure design. The disruptive and trans-formative impact of distributed technologies is undeniable. The value of infrastructure is measured by its ability to improve the quality of life. Distributed Metropolitan Design® sets forth a practical approach to employ distributed technologies to refocus infrastructure resources on equitably improving communities and strengthening human capital.
What does it look like?
At the heart of Distributed Metropolitan Design® is a community work model that seeks to change the current single-location or monolithic workplace models of major area employers and their workers by distributing and localizing access to more jobs. Distributed Metropolitan Design® creates a blueprint for a secure network of Enterprise Centers®, each supporting multiple employers in dedicated office suites.
Enterprise Centers® are strategically located around metropolitan areas, offering employers the ability to hire from a wider geographic area, while providing employees the opportunity to work near their homes, reducing their commute times and mitigating traffic congestion in predictable patterns.
Enterprise Centers® contain a multiple number of suites, with each suite designed for specific major employers. An employer may have a few dozen employees in its suite in one Enterprise Center or as many as several hundred employees in another Enterprise Center location based upon their geographic hiring patterns. With ten or more tenant organizations, Enterprise Centers® will vary in size to support a few hundred to several thousand employees.
Enterprise Centers® are securely interconnected to other centers as well as to each employer’s primary location using dedicated, broadband technologies (Intranet). Leveraging economies of scale, a central support technical staff provides infrastructure, training and security to all Enterprise Center clients. An employee can work for a major business or government employer in the metropolitan area or region from a networked Enterprise Center located in or near his or her community.
What could Distributed Metropolitan Design® do for your community and region?
Distributed Metropolitan Design® is focused on community and human capital development. It is a solution to the challenges created by physical growth and growths’ impact on traffic congestion. It also is a timely and scale-able blueprint for economic, and environmental sustainability. Connecting people to jobs has become one of the most extensive and expensive human endeavors in our daily lives. The fundamental building block of DMD is the network Enterprise Centers®. Working with an area’s major employers and number of neighboring communities, information and communications technologies are applied to maximize economic growth and environmental sustainability. Distributed Metropolitan Design® is the only way to expand access to more jobs in more communities while systematically reducing traffic congestion.
