CITY-STATE is an online essay series and print pamphlet featuring seven writers. It’s a collaborative project exploring autonomous governance including the future of the US, why countries should actually be made up of lots of smaller countries, how we can build new cities and bring power to local governance, how we can turn our communities into garden cities, and how we can create a new geopolitical landscape of borderless polities that benefit us all.

Essays include:

US states should be autonomous (like EU countries) by Elle Griffin Multi-country civilizations are good, actually by Étienne Fortier-Dubois It’s time for Thomas Jefferson's village-states by Bryce Tolpen Should we create more US states? by Elle Griffin Matera as the future “village-state” by Elle Griffin It’s up to us to create garden cities by Stephen Mackintosh What if we get rid of politicians? By JK Lund Why we should build new cities By Jeff Fong Digital nomads could create network states by Olivier Roland Utopian worldbuilding in Terra Ignota by Elle Griffin

You can also follow our project live in The Elysian: https://www.elysian.press/