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Bryn Gweled, Pennsylvania
Bryn Gweled is a small community in Upper Southampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Described variously as an "intentionally cooperative community"〔(Bryn Gweled website ), history section〕 and "more like a commune", Bryn Gweled consists of 75 privately owned homes on of collectively owned land.〔(Bryn Gweled website )〕
The community was founded in 1940 by twelve mostly Quaker families from the Philadelphia area.〔 The name of the town means "Hill of Vision" in Welsh. The community maintains its founders' vision of collective responsibility, consensus-style management, and racial diversity,〔 and has been cited as an example of community-based decision-making in action.〔Christakis & Bausch, ''How People Harness Their Collective Wisdom And Power to Construct the Future'', Information Age Publishing Inc., 2006, p. 125〕
Some of house architecture was created by various students of Frank Lloyd Wright the famous American architect - such as Robert Forsythe Bishop, and others who went on to have distinguished further careers. The homes are located near picturesque fields and forests overlooking hills and creeks of the surrounding countryside and are each on lots greater than . Several of the homes feature various unique architectural elements such as heated floors, exposed wooden beams, wide open interior spaces, central fireplaces typical of organic architecture and Usonian homes.
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