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Superior city is the most densely populated  urbiome of CSSAB. It tends to attract people who love the dazzle and energy of a 20th century cosmopolitan metropolis (think Manhattan, Mexico City, Tokyo).  Many of its inhabitants are committed city dwellers who rarely venture out of “the hive” for more than a few nights at a time. The central urbislets of Superior City are home to some of the tallest buildings in the SAB.

This manic urbanity is partly due to the fact that Superior City  hosts the Civic Blockchain  Management Assembly. This assembly is responsible for monitoring and maintaining the qubit blockchains that underlie the local currency (this currency is commonly known as the luz dinero or lightbux.) As a result, over the past few decades it has become a hub of “financial” activity for the entire CSSAB.

Superior City is also the port city for the Gichigami Space Elevator. You can get a good look at the space-elevator’s  anchor-base from the Wolverine Steps that lead down from the Terrace Bay urbislet.  The Gichigami Space Elevator was the first of its kind. Orbital factories were necessary in the production of certain essential metamaterials for float-tech and neural interfaces, these were nearly impossible to manufacture on earth due to the confounding effects of the earth’s gravity on some of the more delicate molecular assembly processes.  The elevator is also the supply and return line for the space mining activities of the ecoregion.  The proximity to the space elevator is another factor that contributes to Superior City’s hyperactive economy (and population).

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View from the Strato Ferry  from Thunderbay to Superior City.  The urbiome is composed of self sufficient urbislets separated by wildlife corridors. They resemble a neuronal structure with dense clusters connected by filigrees of light. These lighted pathways and structures trace out a super organism composed of the interactions between each human and non human inhabitant.

Over 30 million people call this region home.  They have come from all over the world, most are climate refugees who have fled  floods, droughts, wildfires, and rising sea levels, drawn by the promise of stable democratic civility and a way of life that respects ecological boundaries.

Central Shield is a Seven Generation City and was developed under  the Sacred Civics protocol of 2034 as described in the Global Green New Deal. 

The form of urbiomes  take shape in relation to the surrounding environment.  The process of designing the urbiome involved nearly 20+ years of research and design beginning with an exhaustive environmental assessment of the area guided  by an effective synergy of indigenous land protector knowledge and contemporary earth science modelling.

Throughout the latter half of the 21st century, the urbiome`s development ran parallel with a comprehensive multi-generational cultural shift which saw the dismantling of hypercapitalist systems and the emergence of situated and circular solidarity economics. 

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Workers rig delicate cable systems into the chassis of a Strato Ferry under construction in the  Central Shield ship yards . The ship yards are part of the low earth orbit manufacturing ring which functions as a stabilizing platform for the Gichigami Space Elevator.

In addition to manufacturing delicate materials that require zerogravity and vacuum conditions, these facilities also process materials extracted from astronomical bodies. By the mid 2100’s mining on earth had been more or less stopped as recycling processes for waste materials and off world resource extraction and production were able to satisfy the needs of earth industry. 

Below them, Strato Ferries of the North American commuter lines pick up and deliver passengers and cargo to and from the transport rings which are closest to the surface.

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Citizen scientists in the Megafauna Monitoring Group  of the Central Shield Land Protectors have sedated a mature black bear outside the urbislets of Animbiigoong in order to  conduct a biannual check up.  The healthy presence of megafauna is an important marker that the urbiome is operating in harmony with the local environment. 

“Everything is a Citizen” is a central principle of urbiome governance. Data collected by the Megafauna Monitoring group is collected and processed by  the urbiome`s Democratic Confederation  of Things. In this way all citizens of the urbiome might have a representation in the governing body of the urbiome.

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The Critical Zone Observation Network (CZON) is an extension of the  Internet of Things into earth’s ecological systems. It is comprised of  a network of multimodal  situated sensors that strategically  monitor aspects of the earth’s critical zone (the volume of  space that comprises the atmosphere, hydrosphere/cryosphere, lithosphere and biosphere). Information about soil, water and air quality is collected and processed to inform the local models which are then used by eco-regional stewards to monitor the health of the region.  This practice might be interpreted as a bio-technologically assisted  drive to facilitate practices of land stewardship.  The Central Shield Land Protectors are the civic department responsible for ecological stewardship in the Central Shield eco-zone.

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Members of the Central Shield Land Protectors conduct controlled burns outside of the Ouimet Urbiome. The C.S.L.P.  Function as caretakers of the natural systems within the special administration biome.  Residents of the urbiome can increase their  portion of the weekly  civic dividend based on their time contribution to the Central Shield Civic Corps, of which the C.S.L.P.  is one agency. In the early 2020’s as forest fire smoke from Canada’s Boreal occluded the skies of Manhattan, and the early ravages of a heating planet began to manifest, local populations became greatly more aware of the existential importance of sound ecological practices.

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A Civitas of Species

Humans and non-humans thrive alongside each other in benevolent civic megastructures designed to perform within planetary boundaries. A cross-section of the Central Shield urbiome from Jewel of the Boreal.

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