The Planetary City is the planet thought of as a city, fractal from the neighbourhood up to the globe, so that it can be governed as a whole. My preferred version is a Gaiapolis with room for the nonhuman multitude. Trantor with more trees and a lot more critters, if you like.
How the word moved
In Jan 2022, in the metaverse series, I wrote that the interverse inscribes the planetary city. In Jan 2026 the move became explicit: think of the planet itself as a city, because urban governance is already metabolic. In Feb 2026 I set Ecumenopolis against Gaiapolis and picked the second.
In my words
"IMHO, conceiving the planet as a city is the only way to govern it as a whole."
from The Planetarity Syllabus. Governing the Planet, Part 1, 10 Feb 2026
"Urban governance is already metabolic!"
from A Planetarity Syllabus, 19 Jan 2026
Related
- Related Interverse - the interverse is what inscribes the planetary city.
- Related Metabolic Order - the city I have in mind is a fractal of metabolic institutions.
- Related Planetary Steward - stewards look after parts of the planetary city.