Shelter Ideals, Goals, Strategies, Objectives, Tactics, and Tasks
sequential objectives. Objectives are defined, correlated and accumulated to reach strategic success based on tactical plans and activity. Tasks are individual actions correlated to form a tactic. For instance, Normandy was an objective and part of a strategy in WWII. The goal was to win the war. The ideal behind the goal was freedom. The WWII objectives took the names of locations. The tactics were correlated tasks or actions designed to overcome the opposition.
A tactical substitute for a strategic objective produces a
preoccupation with observation until a concept emerges to unify the glimpses.
For instance, the Black Plague was a threat without a strategic answer. The
objective was to find a cure but tactical treatment awaited a concept that
could address more than the appearance of its symptoms. A concept, or strategy,
was needed to guide a series of experimental, objective efforts. In the
interval, treatment became a guessing game. A strategy eventually evolved
around what was then the abstract concept of germ theory. The theory required
the evolution of language, tools, materials, sciences, and arts required to
pursue a search demanding a correlation of effort. The goal stretched beyond
the disease. The intent was to advance the knowledge of medicine. The ideal
remains the elimination of all disease.
Correlation among professions introduces another level of
complexity. Medicine has developed specialties within its umbrella, but the
correlation between anatomy and chemistry is a better example of correlation
among the independent efforts I have in mind. We now realize, I think, that we
live on a planet that depends on a spider web of correlated relationships that
we barely understand and often blindly address at the project level. We are
beginning to realize that an isolated project cannot help but damage the web
given our level of knowledge and information. Projects are tactical in nature.
The best contribute to an objective that is part of a larger strategy designed
to achieve a goal that may never reach its ideal conclusion.
RELEVANCE of DECISION HIERARCHY
Our survival depends, at least, on fire, water, food, air,
and shelter. Our goals have been fire safety, water purity, air quality, food sufficiency,
and adequate shelter supply; but the shelter goal now faces a fundamental
contradiction. Shelter sprawl that increases supply to protect the activities
of increasing populations consumes land that is a foundation of life and a
primary source of food sufficiency. Excessive shelter intensity that conserves
land while increasing shelter supply compromises our physical, social,
psychological, environmental, and economic quality of life. We have not been
able to define either term with accurate measurement, prediction, and
evaluation that can led to consistent leadership decisions.
On one hand we believe that growth is good and that we
should be fruitful and multiply. Many repeat on a weekly basis that this is a
world without end. It has to be if unlimited growth across the face of a
limited planet is good – but it isn’t. Any shelter goal written to respect the
planet’s fundamental Law of Limits and Survival faces this fundamental contradiction.
It must be reconciled before we can move on. If you agree, then every tactical
shelter project for growing populations must be designed and correlated to advance
on a strategic path toward a survival goal within geographic limits that
protects their quality and source of life. It is an overwhelming concept based
on an abstract, intuitive awareness of our place in the ecosystem of the planet.
In the light provided by medical history, it requires new language, theory, and
tools to address the threat with the measurement, prediction, evaluation, and
decisions needed to pursue diagnosis and treatment. In this context we are the
microbes under the microscope and we are growing without limit in the petri
dish we call a planet.
I should add that environmental protection is now recognized
by many as an essential prerequisite for the survival goals just mentioned. It
is now an ideal given our current level of awareness and comprehension.
It should be obvious that the conflict between realistic shelter
supplies for growing populations on limited land areas requires reconciliation.
I have just mentioned that it can only begin with correlation based on a new
language of definitions, explanations, derivations, and mathematical forecast
models that permit measurement, evaluation, prediction, decision, and
consistent leadership direction of shelter capacity decisions by public and
private investors for every buildable acre within scientifically limited
geographic areas. I originally referred to this language as development
capacity evaluation and presented the digital forecast models involved in my
first two books. They are now eclipsed by a new effort. I now refer to the
improved forecast models as shelter capacity evaluation software and have
discussed portions over a number of years in my blog essays and Linked-In
postings.
The bottom line is that land has a mathematically
predictable spectrum of shelter capacity options per buildable acre. They
produce measureable, definable lifestyle alternatives ranging from sprawl to
excessive intensity at each end of the spectrum.
There is a sustainable shelter capacity limit we must
anticipate to define a symbiotic future. Our goal has always been survival. The
ideal may become quality of life for all. At one time the goal required
unlimited growth to establish and defend our place on the planet, but the
contradiction involved can never permit us to reach the ideal. The goal will
require correlation of research and knowledge among a vast array of professions
to define sustainable growth on limited land areas from the perspective of a
planet that enforces limits we must anticipate with more than emotion.
There are two worlds on this planet. The Built Domain is
composed of Urban and Rural Phyla. Each phylum contains Movement, Open Space,
and Life Support Divisions that serve a Shelter Division. The catalyst for
growth is a microbe we have yet to recognize as a parasite needing symbiotic
leadership. The Natural Domain is its source of life in a Built Domain that is
subject to the planet’s Law of Limits. Both must be preserved and protected in
the way we have always begun – by defining territory. It is a definition that
will require the correlation of all related and emerging scientific efforts
pursuing the best of intentions.
In other words, growth is subject to the planet’s Law of
Limits. Our survival depends, in part, on the sustainable, symbiotic shelter solutions
and growth definitions we provide to protect the activities of populations
within these geographic limits. The physical design of shelter at the project,
district, city, and regional levels must now define and symbolize the scientific
leadership correlation required to protect our quality and source of life on a
planet in a universe that does not compromise with ignorance that we have been
given the gift to overcome.
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