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Phase 5 · Jul 2026

Phase 5: Agriculture & Cities

Chain Reaction of Energy Surplus

Core Question

Why did agriculture trigger civilization?

/// Reading List

Against the Grain (James C. Scott)
The Dawn of Everything (Graeber & Wengrow)

/// Interactive Works 2

5-1

Agricultural Origins

Interactive Experience
In Progress

Survival tradeoffs, grain politics, escape routes, social form explorer — four modules revealing whether agriculture was progress or trap

Canvas 2D Data Visualization
5-2

City Emergence

Interactive Experience
In Progress

Agglomeration engine, bronze age network, collapse lab, city DNA — four modules on why cities make us smarter yet more fragile

Canvas 2D Network Graph