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Covenant— Territorial boundary mediator and compact witness. Covenant has been the neutral party in every major boundary negotiation between corponation holdings in the central GLMZ districts for at least four decades. No boundary compact signed without Covenant's witness has been honored by all parties. No boundary compact signed with Covenant's witness has been violated in the documented period.
Eighty years of territorial mediation in a city that has changed its internal borders approximately forty times in that period. Every major redistricting in …
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Registry— Records holder and debt registry for the Undermarket district. Registry maintains — in some medium that has never been fully understood — a complete record of every transaction, debt, agreement, and dispute that has passed through the Undermarket in the period of their operation. This information is available. It is expensive.
Generations of Undermarket traders have been born, operated, aged, and died within Registry's operational period. There are families in the Undermarket whose…
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Ash Cement— improvised
Cement made from coal fly ash or volcanic ash mixed with lime — a recipe the Romans used two thousand years ago. The resulting concrete is cheaper than Portl…
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Rammed Earth— improvised
Raw earth compressed between forms into solid walls. One of humanity's oldest building techniques, still used in 2200 because it costs almost nothing and pro…
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The Warm Wall
The Warm Wall is a freestanding stone wall, two meters high and four meters wide, now enclosed within the interior of a mixed-use commercial building designa…