Anthropolis
Polis Design
Let the corporate towers crumble into compost. Let the poleis rise again, green and luminous, each one a heartbeat in the body of a living Earth.
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The Living Polis
Structures, Systems, & Practices of a Regenerative Society
Anthropolis imagines the polis as a living form of intelligence—one that learns, remembers, and cares. Governance, economy, culture, and technology are woven into a single human ecology, shaped by limits rather than excess. Energy, food, shelter, and work arise from reciprocal systems that honor continuity and repair. Cooperation is designed into space and practice; authority gives way to shared signals and attentive coordination. Greenhouses, living materials, and reused landscapes become organs of civic life. Linked through open exchange, networks of poleis cultivate resilience not as defense, but as belonging—an enduring balance between freedom, responsibility, and care.
Polis Districts:
1. The Agora–Acropolis: Civic Coordination and Shared Stewardship
Defines the civic heart of the polis, where governance, culture, and long-term responsibility converge through participatory institutions, shared memory, and collective care.
2. Food Production: Regenerative Nourishment Systems
Describes how food becomes a foundation of health, cooperation, and ecological balance through regenerative agriculture, shared cultivation, and local resilience.
3. Education & Remote Work: Knowledge as a Living Commons
Outlines a model of lifelong, cooperative learning and globally connected work that treats knowledge as a shared resource rather than a competitive commodity.
4. Manufacturing & Fabrication: Local Production Within Ecological Limits
Details a distributed, repair-oriented approach to making that replaces extractive industry with circular materials, open design, and community-scale fabrication.
5. Healthcare & Wellbeing: Health as a Collective Condition
Reframes health as a shared social and environmental outcome, integrating prevention, care, and wellbeing into everyday civic life.
6. Fitness, Meditation & Inner Ecology: Cultivating the Foundations of Cooperation
Explores how movement, reflection, and mental wellbeing support empathy, resilience, and the psychological capacities required for cooperative societies.
A Constellation of Connected Poleis: Movement, Continuity, and Shared Ground
Describes how autonomous poleis are linked through ecological corridors, pedestrian and bicycle networks, limited transport arteries, and shared commons that sustain continuity, mobility, and mutual responsibility across the landscape.
it takes a village...
...to raise a village.
