About Our Department
In Fate we embody a
Strong Towns approach which advocates for development that results in a financially strong and resilient community beyond the first life-cycle of any given development. Strong Towns' principles include:
- Relies on small, incremental investments (little bets) instead of large, transformative projects;
- Emphasizes resiliency of result over efficiency of execution;
- Is designed to adapt to feedback (seamless conversion of development to another purpose);
- Is inspired by bottom-up action (chaotic but smart) and not top-down systems (orderly but dumb);
- Seeks to conduct as much of life as possible at a personal scale (emphasizes places for people - vehicles are a subordinate consideration); &
- Is obsessive about accounting for its revenues, expenses, assets and long term liabilities (do the math).