Papers
Three papers on rebuilding a city’s commons
Engineering the Commons
A newspaper’s advertising was priced on the gravity it produced, a town’s attention gathered in one place. Journalism was the input. Gravity was the product. This paper describes how that gravity is built deliberately today, what Cityverse assembles to do it, and what a city gets back.
Engineering Attention
Aimed at what a person watches, a feed extracts. Aimed at what a person does, it serves. This paper sets out the mechanics that bring people back to a city’s commons and leave them with more than they arrived with: the echo, the medal, the record, and the things that do not wear out.
Engineering Value
A civic commons carries two kinds of cost, and it earns through families of revenue that switch on as it grows. This paper prices the gravity, sets out how the build is financed through a series LLC with a local minority stake in each city, and shows the commons breaking even on a small slice of the city.
