Civara

1. Block

   A nine-year-old walks to the bakery alone, and nobody worries.

   24 homes, 1 bakery

2. Center

   Twenty blocks around one square: everything a family needs, ten minutes on foot.

   2,000 residents in a 10-minute walk

3. Community

   One center, and everything within three miles starts bending toward it.

   1 anchor, 30,000 people in its pull

4. City

   A dozen centers, each a short ride apart, and the highway that cut them off is a park.

   14 centers, 1 capped highway

5. Civilization

   Eleven thousand of these, and the country has somewhere to walk to again.

   11,000 places

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