NewVistas is a constitutional framework for human communities — a detailed blueprint for how people can live, work, govern themselves, and care for the planet.

Four decades in the making

Although NewVistas was formally organized in 2015, its origins reach back more than forty years. During the oil crisis of 1973, David Hall became convinced that many assumptions behind modern industrial civilization were unsustainable.

He later encountered historical documents from the early 1830s, including the Plat of the City of Zion and the Plan of the House of the Lord. In them, he saw a practical pattern for community design, governance, economics, education, and stewardship.

Over time, this work became NewVistas: a modern reconstruction of that pattern using contemporary technology, legal structures, and organizational systems.

We develop the blueprint. Communities build themselves.

The NewVistas Foundation develops the constitutional documents, building designs, qualification process, licensing system, and operating software. It does not govern communities.

Each NewVistas community is intended to be legally and financially independent. Its unity comes from a shared pattern, not from central control.

The first buildings are coming.

The worldwide pattern begins with founders, councils of twelve, and probability-of-success analysis before large capital is committed.

The problem is not people. It is the structure they live in.

NewVistas is built on the belief that communities can be healthier, more connected, more prosperous, and more sustainable without becoming restrictive or uniform.