This zine is a continuation of a conversation I started on a rooftop garden.

That zine explored how care takes root in the cracks of policy and power — this one moves downward and outward, into the city itself. What happens when we stop asking cities to serve us, and start asking how we might serve them? What might it look like to govern alongside soil, weather, and wild neighbours; instead of around them?

What a Biocentric Policy for Cities Could Look Like is a poetic field diary from a week in a speculative, soft city. One where planning happens under plum trees, trust is a measurable asset, and policies are co-written with kids, rivers, and moths.

Each page imagines not just infrastructure, but a shift in our patterns of permission. In this city, foxes guard the compost like librarians. There are no PowerPoints; just stories, maps, and amendments passed in public dance.

The zine draws on punk aesthetics, risograph textures, and illustrated speculation. It’s not a utopia — just a week in a city learning to care. It’s deeply influenced by conversations on regenerative governance, my own burnout from institutional systems, and the question that kept circling as I made this:

What if cities didn’t need to adapt to us? What if we finally let ourselves adapt to them?