PREAMBLE

Whereas we come together to reaffirm the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

We recognize then that most of humanity live in communities and that the model by which a community is structured affects its character and the quality of life for its citizens. A poorly managed and corrupt government without plans or vision will always result in an unhappy community, whereas as wise and well managed community that is capable of defining its goals, values and beliefs is more likely to achieve happiness.

We further recognize that no law in the universe exists whereby the life of being human must be difficult and plagued with poverty and disease. That it is within the power of every human to better themselves and it is within the collective power of humanity to bring forth a better quality of community life for all humanity.

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HAPPY COMMUNITY LIVING as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these principles and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1- Human social need

Human beings are a social animal. We prefer to live in communities, rather than alone. One hundred years ago, 8 out of 10 of all human lived in settlements of less than 5,000 inhabitants. Today, 1 in 3 people live in major metropolis centres of one million or more people.

Article 2 Human communities

Our lives are lived within communities, whether it be in towns or cities.

A town may be defined as a small community of less than five thousand people whose economic and social structure is self sustained and contained.

A city may be defined as a medium to large community of more than five thousand to millions of people whose economic and social structure is self sustained and contained.

Article 3-History of humanity and communities

Cities are one of the prime architectures of human settlement and have remained the essential same structure since the very first cities.

The quality of life for most citizens of cities has been poor for the entire history of humanity.

People accept the poor quality of housing as an argument for accepting continuing the same model.

Lack of city planning has created massive social problems around the world as the sheer weight in numbers of people have made many cities unworkable and structural entities.

The lack of function of a city will inevitability be reflected in decline.

The long term lack and decline in standards of inner city living will result in higher crime and health problems of the citizens.

Article 4-Types of communities

There are different types of communities, some large and some small. Our communities may be sophisticated cities, or they may be small villages.

All types of positive communities in which the individual rights of human beings are respected are also to be respected even if they may be different culturally.

Article 5-The community model

The community model is the structural components upon which the community is constructed.

Article 6-Community Life

Community life is the general quality of life for the citizens of a community. The ultimate goal of every elected government and every citizen should be to see the highest quality of life for themselves and for the rest of their community.

Quality of life is seen distinct from standard of living and other economic indicators which may or may not accurately reflect important qualities in the lives of the citizens of a community such as pristine environment and localized industry and services.

Article 7-History of community life

While ample land and resources may have existed, for most human beings, their community lives have been difficult and sad. While not every person without means is also without happiness, for most of humanity, their lives have been touched by great poverty, disease, sadness and death.

The great communities of humanity, the great cities of history have also been great centres of child exploitation, disease, hunger and depravity towards fellow human beings. Citizens of wealth, protected from the poverty of their fellow citizens have for their own reasons perpetuated such conditions even until this day.

Article 8-The future of community life

There is nothing to say that the future of humanity and community life is doomed, nor that we shall perish in great disasters, nor that we shall forever life in inequality of masters and workers, of those with great wealth and those with nothing.

Article 9-The power to change our destiny

It within the power of each and every human to change their own destiny. In choosing to contribute in some way to making the world better place we show we have the power to change our collective destiny.

Article 10-Happy community living

In taking control of our future and our destiny, it is the goal of this Declaration that all communities may exist in peace and happiness and that the quality of life continues to improve for all human beings no matter what creed, culture, race or belief system.

Article 11-Purpose of a community

1. Communities should always exist for the benefit of its citizens first.

2. The rights of citizenship and the ceremony of citizenship should always be prominent in the active life of a community and its citizens

3. The values and visions of a cities citizens should be utmost the basis of future development and existence of a community.

4. That a community has a clearly stated set of visions and values for the future in 5 years and in 10 years time and that these visions and values are consistent to the rights of citizens according to the community constitution.

Article 12-Structural components of a community

For the purpose of analysis, measurement and planning a city may be defined by the components that create it called “objects”. The prime city objects by which all human settlement may be defined are:
Structure
Citizen
Resident
Residence
Building
Core
Neighbourhood
Community
Region
State
Nation
Global region

Residence

A resident is a person living in a particular place for a given period of time. A resident may be a citizen of the country, a tourist or a permanent visitor.

Core

A core is a central group of buildings

Neighbourhood

A neighbourhood is a geographical area that is adjacent to a core. The shape and size of a precinct is typically restricted by major geographic and human constructed barriers such as rivers, major transport links, hills and valleys.

Region
A region is a geographical area that is adjacent to a precinct on the outer areas of a city or larger human settlement. Communities are typically lower density buildings and residences, rural and farming communities.

Community

A community is an aggregation of one or more cores, precincts and regions.

Article 13-State

A state is an aggregation of one or more communities under some common agreement or constitution..

The general health of a state is dependent upon the general mix and health of its communities.

A happy state cannot exist unless each of its communities are also happy.

Article 14- Nation

A nation is an aggregation of one or more states under some common constitution.

The general health of a nation is dependent upon the general mix and health of its states.

A wise and fair national constitution in which the citizens of states may participate in the election of government and the fair management of national resources is the only mechanism by which national happiness can be achieved.

Poorly structured constitutions will always lead to injustice and unhappiness as such weakness allow the powerful to exploit the rest of the citizens. No nation can be truly happy when its fundamental structure is weak and corrupt.

Article 15-Community citizens

A community is founded on its citizens. While buildings may be constructed and fail, while land may be taken and people scattered, a community exists in essence in the heart of those people who choose to come together in the dream of living as one.

Therefore it is the health of the spirit of a community that ultimately determines the health and destiny of a community.

Article 16-The responsibilities of citizenship

As community is a living commitment to participate as one, citizenship is not a right, it is a responsibility.

Before any benefit is bestowed upon a citizen by their community, it is the citizens individual responsibility to assist the community where and how they can.

It is a prime responsibility of all adult citizen within a society to do their best to improve themselves, to help themselves and to help others.

Additionally, it is a responsibility of every adult citizen in a society to assist the society in achieving its co-operative objectives.

Furthermore, it is the individual responsibility of every adult citizen to obey the laws of the community as those laws comply and are consistent with the UN Charter and Universal Declarations. In those instances where laws exists that contravene the Universal Declarations and UN Charter that they work peacefully for legislative and democratic reform.

Article 17-The privileges of citizenship

Privileges are benefits that come with agreeing to abide by the rules of living in a society of human beings, not simply by birth.

1.A free person
According to the laws of the culture, a free person should be someone who living in that culture and is accepted as a citizen, and does not contravene the laws and values of that society.


2.Freedoms
• A free person should have the right to free passage within the society in which they live.

• A free person should have the right to personal privacy and their privacy respected by the institutions, organisations and commerce of that society.

• A free person should have the right of free speech and expression.

• A free person should have the right to participate fully in the democratic processes of electing representatives.

• A free person should have the right to choose to whom they offer their services and have the right to withdraw the offer of labour and services if they so choose.

• A free person should have the right to trade with other people within the society and external to the society.

• A free person should have the right to own property and assets, subject to the laws and conditions of the society.

• A free person should have the right to use those services which are deemed as for the benefit of the public.

3. Quality education
• A free person should have the privilege of access to quality education services by means which enable quality education to be possible for all persons.

4.Quality health services
• A free person should have the privilege of access to quality health services by means which enable quality health to be possible for all persons.

5.Security of person and possessions
• A free person should have the privilege of access to quality security of their person and possessions, with these services continuing to operate without need to renew request.

6.Meaningful employment
• A free person should have the privilege to choose a range of occupations and careers with a wide variety of jobs available in meaningful employment.

• In the case where private firms are unable to provide sufficient job opportunities, that governments assist individuals without full time work to focus on how to put their career dreams into reality and secure meaningful employment.

Article 18-Community government

The values and visions of a communities citizens should be utmost the basis of future development and existence of a community.

That all acts of planning and development of the community are judged according to their consistency with the rights of citizens and the values and visions of citizens of the city.

That the elected officials of the community have as their charter of responsibilities the responsibility to ensure:
• all public buildings display prominently the rights of citizens of the community;
• all public officials are familiar and honor the rights of the citizens of the community;
• all public institutions have as their charter the display of the rights of citizens in official documents that directly relate to transactions that could affect a citizens rights ( including leases, traffic etc);
• that the ceremony of citizenship shall be a formal ceremony celebrated by all natural born in their eighteenth year and all naturalised citizens at the appropriate date of granting;
• all public education bodies have as part of their education charter the role to educate young citizens of their rights and they shall regularly re-pledge their rights;

That a prime responsibility of elected officials as stated in the community constitution is to define and protect the assets of its citizens, including:
• public space, including parks.
• public buildings and amenities
• public monuments
• public transport system
• other assets of the community

The communities elected officials should always have as a goal to develop rates of public assets to private assets so that this ratio is never lost.

That as part of the constitution, the communities elected officials and public officials are charged with focusing on the transport needs of its public ahead of private means of transport.

Article 19- Community buildings

Community buildings are those structures which are built for some collective purpose and influence and other structures for commerce and individual residence (home).

A community is typically a collection of different community, industrial and private structures. A large city community may contain many hundreds of thousands of buildings.

While different locations on planet Earth afford a different assortment of natural buildings materials, the construction of buildings have for the most part followed various traditions and conventions for millennia.

The most notable and consistent feature of community buildings is the geometric and architectural choice of the square and block shape for virtually all buildings. This tradition continues for a number of reasons most notably due to the generally reliable engineering methods of construction, the cheapness of construction and the general maximization of grid land development.

While there are many aesthetic, cultural and historical buildings and methods that have beautify and significance, there has never traditionally been a construction principle that considers the average family residence must be fully waterproof, storm proof, earthquake proof and massive wave (tsunami) proof. The argument usually given if such rare questioning is raised is that such standards would be too expensive.

However, there are well established building and force design principles that if adopted could afford disaster proof affordable housing for millions of coast dwellers- the consideration of geodesic designed above ground housing and adoption of below ground infrastructure and housing.

Fully sealed and contained below ground housing offers the best and only possible building capable of withstanding a nuclear or massive geothermal winter or a massive super storm. Even the strongest above ground human structures by their deficient geometric shape and materials will eventually succumb to the strongest of storms.

For the sake of humanity and for the save of the lives of hundreds of millions of human being, thinking on building must turn to spherical (geodesic) above ground designs and extensive below ground city infrastructure.

Article 20- Community systems

Community systems are the essential systems that support the function of a community. For most modern communities of over one thousand people, these include:

Public Service Administration System
Legal Justice System
Military/Police System
Roads/Transport System
Food/Produce/Market/Distribution System
Water & Sanitation System
Power System
Public Standard of Living
Health System
Education System
Public Welfare & Entertainment System

Article 21- City

That a city is only truly a city when it can define its boundaries, has a constitution identifying the institution of citizenship and the election of democratically elected representatives and clearly states the rights of a citizen of the city.

That a city is only a city when it has a clear mandate via its constitution to:
1. • maintain its borders as a city;
2. • define the land usages and zoning of land defined within the city boundaries;
3. • Define the basic activities of commercial trade, markets, distribution and availability of commercial services;
4. • administer effectively the provision of essential city services including: power, water, gas, roads, utilities, emergency services, cables and sewerage, transport, garbage collection;
5. • have the capacity to raise revenue to pay for the cost of providing these services;
6. • administer the approval of building and building codes;
7. • plan the rezoning and restructure of certain regions of the city in line with the citizens vision;
8. • provide safety and protection to its citizens by means of personal protection of property, personal rights and values.