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Settlements & Planning

A camp laid out on the first day decides whether fire and cholera sweep through it: 45 m² per person, 2 m between shelters, a 30 m firebreak every 300 m, latrines within 50 m of every shelter and 30 m downhill of any water, water within 500 m. The sector climbs from that camp to a planned city: ground above the design flood, plots and streets pegged before anyone builds, fire and zoning rules, and room to grow.
7 steps + 2 cross-listed 6 field guides 1 build 1 reference sheet 34 books and archives

Tracks

Each track is one line of development climbing the eight levels. A cell holds the step written at that level; cross-listed steps have their home in another sector and are shown here because this subject depends on them. Dashed cells are planned and not yet written; blank ones have nothing planned.

Settlement and planning

From the first camp to the planned city: where to put it, how to lay it out, and how to keep fire, flood and foul water away from where people sleep.

L0 Triage
L1 Foothold
L2 Forge
L3 Mill
L4 Engine
L5 Current
L6 Logic
L7 Frontier
t0-camp Lay out the camp Guide
t1-site Choose the ground Guide ×2 t1-commonworks The first public good Guide ×2Sheet Home: Society
t2-plot Plot, street and block GuideBuild
t3-fire Fire separation and the building code Guide
t4-zoning Zoning: separation distances, wind, river and flood Guide ×2 t4-sanitation City water and sewerage Guide ×2 Home: Water
t5-city Plan the city before it grows Guide ×2
Level 6: nothing planned
t7-city The compact, connected, resilient city Guide
Open the track, level by level →

Everything in Settlements & Planning

Gathered from the steps above: the guides and builds that serve them, the reference sheets those carry, and every book the steps, guides and builds cite.

Field guides

Level 0
Planning a settlement

Where to put a settlement and how to lay it out, from a first night's camp to a town: the numbers that keep fire, flood and foul water away from where people sleep.

 Level 3
Earth sciences

Water in and on the ground, the air and weather, rocks and time, earthquakes and tsunamis, and the climate: each result with what it lets you do and who first found it.

 Level 0
Wild water and wells

Surface water is a treatment problem every single day. Groundwater, reached and sealed properly, is a treatment problem once.

 Level 0
Institutions: what to found, and how to run them

Every public institution an advanced civilisation runs, in the order a rebuilding one can found them: what each is for, when it becomes possible, and the rules that keep it honest, useful and no bigger than its job.

 Level 0
Sanitation and disease

The distance between a latrine and a well, a bar of soap, and a covered pit prevent more deaths than every hospital on the ladder combined.

 Level 3
Micro-organisms

The two dozen that decide who lives where there is no doctor: what each does, how it spreads, what kills it and which step stops it.

Builds

Batter boards on pegs outside each corner of a foundation, with string lines strung between them.
Level 2
Set out a block

Put the plan on the ground with cord, pegs and a triangle: square corners, straight lines and levels anyone can check again.

Reference sheets

Drawn overview sheets, each with its corrections printed under it. They orient; they are never the thing you identify from.

A lever hand pump in section — pump head, rod, piston and its valve, rising main and foot valve — with the parts, the stroke cycle, installation, maintenance and design notes.
Hand pump On: The first public good · Wild water and wells: Lifting the water

Books and archives

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