The spine
Eight pieces. One machine.
Every piece here is argued in full in The Handbook of MicroCities — this page is only the map, so you can hold the whole machine before the story starts turning its gears.
MicroCity
The unit of deployment. Not a miniature city: a self-sufficient, nested settlement, sized so every system below can be planned together instead of as separate contracts.
Chapter 3Five Capitals
Financial, Ecological, Cultural, Social, Generational. What a single financial ledger cannot measure: one capital priced, four attested, none ever collapsed into a single number.
Chapters 3, 5Hartwick's Rule
Spend the rents, never the principal.
Chapters 4-5Land trust, fixed voting weights
Ownership held so capital can never simply outbid its way into control.
Chapter 5The 144-year horizon
The same figure, not a coincidence, as the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace's instruction to weigh a decision's effect seven generations forward.
Chapters 5, 8PrimeID (PrIA)
A self-sovereign identity credential, created once, held by no central authority — what makes "owner, not beneficiary" a structural property rather than a policy promise.
Chapters 4, 7Proof-gated funding
Money released against verified milestones, not against a pitch.
Chapter 5The fifth point
The party who holds the fit between all seven of the above, so the pieces compose instead of drifting apart.
Chapter 7Every project that gets approved narrowly — a power plant, a highway, a hospital — leaves something on the table, because the planning frame was one vertical wide. The spine is what makes planning all of it together possible.