Jake Lawrence · Civic Data / Local Government / Open Data · Field Data theme
A civic field-data series about one village, the owner's hometown. Built to be useful to residents first, then to staff and elected officials, then to anyone who wants the raw data. Thread one publishes the full rulebook as versioned, hashed open data; the money, board-decisions, and development threads follow, each leaving a public dataset behind.
The civic arm of the research program, and the empirical companion to the Rules Stack. A study series about the stacked rules and the money that touch a home in Pingree Grove and Cambridge Lakes, Illinois. Thread one re-publishes the cited Rules Stack corpus (jurisdictions, rule nodes, overrides, neighborhoods, crosswalk) as a versioned, hashed, CSV and JSON open-data release whose counts re-derive live in the browser and in CI. A public FOIA log publishes the sourcing in the open. Public records only, conservative on conflicts, refreshed quarterly by pull request.
Two field-data studies in the same content-as-code mold, one abroad and one at home. The Legibility Gap measures what Ukraine's property registry can and cannot read; Pingree Grove Studies publishes the rules and money that a single American village can, starting with its rulebook as open data.
Classification as Infrastructure names the pattern in the abstract. Pingree Grove Studies makes it a downloadable object: the stacked authority over a home, from federal floor to HOA, is a classification system, and thread one ships it as a hashed dataset anyone can fork.
What the State Keeps reads a national government as a classified inventory from above. Pingree Grove Studies reads one village from the ground: the same move at the smallest scale of the state, where the inventory is a rulebook and a tax bill a resident actually pays.
Seeing Like an AI Company runs Scott's legibility on a corporate proposal. Pingree Grove Studies runs it on the owner's hometown, making the village legible to the people who live in it rather than only to the state that governs it.
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