Valentino Gareri Atelier has proposed a replicable, mixed-use and zero-waste village for Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia. Called The Spiral Village, the conceptual project is developed by by PolisPlan as part of the company's new initiative Circular Economy Villages. The Villages is a systems-based approach combines living and land regeneration developed by Dr Steven Liaros, a town planner and political economist, together with water engineer Nilmini De Silva, directors of Australian town planning consultancy PolisPlan.