Long horizons
Decisions are tested against the next fifty years, not the next quarter. Nothing is built that the city cannot maintain on its own.
Masterplan for a provisioned city
Third revision
Ecovia
Regnum
A city that feeds, powers and defends itself.
Chapter I
The place.
Five thousand acres in temperate hills, held as one circular parcel. The city sits at the centre; everything that feeds, waters and powers it sits inside the same ring, so the town can never sprawl into the land it lives off.
Wind on the far ridges, glasshouses catching the first sun, the river beyond the belt. Held under the hand, the morning survey flight.
Chapter II
Five thousand acres, drawn to area.
The rings opposite are drawn by area. The picture is the real proportion of the plan, not a diagram of it.
Forest, water & conservation1,000 to 2,000 ac
Watershed, woodland and wildlife corridors wrapping the farmland, held out of development permanently. This belt is the reason the air and water stay clean.
Farm & pasture3,000 ac
Orchards, row crops, glasshouses, hydroponics and grazing worked by the residents themselves. Sized to feed ten thousand people every year, with the surplus going into long-term stores.
City & infrastructure1,000 ac
Homes and their stores, the hospital, the university, market halls, and the ring roads between them. Dense enough to walk, low enough to see the sky.
Rings drawn to area1 : 20,000
Chapter III
What keeps it running.
Six closed loops. Each one is sized for ten thousand people with margin, and each can hold on its own if the outside world stops arriving.
- EnergyLoop 01
- Solar, wind and hydro feed one grid. Storage is sized to carry the city through still, dark weeks without drawing a watt from outside.
- WaterLoop 02
- Rain is captured, treated and recycled in a closed loop: metered out to the fields, and back to the aquifer.
- FoodLoop 03
- Organic row crops, orchards, glasshouses and grass-fed herds on the outer belt. Residents farm it; the surplus goes into the ten-year stores.
- WasteLoop 04
- Nothing leaves for landfill. Organics compost back into the farmland; the rest is sorted, recovered, or refused at the point of purchase.
- MovementLoop 05
- Ring roads, protected cycle paths and shared electric transport. Nothing in the city is more than ten minutes from anything else.
- NetworkLoop 06
- Fibre to every home, and one operations layer watching traffic, load, water and maintenance across the whole site.
Schedule of facilities
Built in the first phases, not promised for later, so the city works from the day people move in.
Hospital & emergency care·University & research labs·Schools·Innovation hub·Market hall & supermarkets·Shopping arcade·Sports complex·Gym, spa & sauna·Parks & playgrounds·Lakes & swimming·Hotels & guest housing·Telemedicine to every home
Chapter IV · Below the line
Everything above this line assumes the world keeps arriving.
Air
An isolated intake through multi-stage filtration, and a dedicated battery bank able to run off-grid.
Method
Excavated once, built twice: the shelter first, the house on top of it.
Every home stands on ten years of supply.
Food, water, medicine and essentials for a decade, sealed beneath every plot and kept live by the house above it.
Chapter V
One currency, spent inside the ring.
The city settles in its own coin. Visitors convert on arrival; residents earn, spend and save in it; and the ledger is open, so anyone can see where the city's money goes.
- Convert on arrivalExchange at the gate or in the app, with resident pricing on hotels, food, transport and events.
- Spend anywhere on siteEvery merchant, service and utility inside the ring accepts it. One balance, no card networks in between.
- Read the ledgerIssuance, reserves and civic spending are published. Residents can audit the treasury without asking.
- Earn it backFarm shifts, maintenance rotations and community work pay in the same coin, so contribution and currency stay tied together.
Chapter VI
Governed in the open.
Ecovia Regnum is not just a city. It is a legacy for the people who come after us.
Prepared under the direction of James Deeges, founder, with a standing delegation drawn from the community.
Open books
Budgets, contracts and reserves are published. Residents see the numbers before the decisions, not after them.
Residents decide
The people who live here vote on what gets built, what gets grown, and what the treasury funds each year.
Land in trust
Farmland, forest and watershed are held out of development permanently. The belt that feeds the city cannot be sold off it.
Chapter VII · Registry of interest
Read the full plan.
The masterplan pack covers the land program, the phasing schedule, the systems specifications and the residency process.
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