Overrun

A Resident's Report on a City Past Its Limits**

Civic Darwinism, Volume I

A hybrid analytical-satirical essay examining urban habitability degradation through five civic perspectives — residence, commuting, leisure, public space, and education — in a Mediterranean city reconstituted as a platform of value extraction.

The volume is set in Granada (Spain) but written so that the processes described are recognisable wherever similar pressures operate; explicit naming is kept indirect throughout. The narrator is a moderately-paid qualified professional who has become, against his expressed wishes, a reluctant witness to the conditions he documents.

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Read the volume

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Structure

The volume is composed of a preface, five central chapters, a coda, a glossary, a data appendix and a methodological note. Each chapter examines the same city through a different functional encounter; the cumulative portrait emerges from the convergence of partial views rather than from a single authoritative position.

urbe/
├── _quarto.yml                       Project configuration
├── index.qmd                         Preface
├── 00-before-the-threshold.qmd       A City Still Worth Loving
├── 01-residents-return.qmd           The Resident's Return
├── 02-commuters-gauntlet.qmd         The Commuter's Gauntlet
├── 03-citizen-without-leisure.qmd    The Citizen Without Leisure
├── 04-flaneur-under-siege.qmd        The Flâneur Under Siege
├── 05-academic-observer.qmd          The Student Who Stayed On
├── 07-coda.qmd                       Neither Sentimentality nor Resignation
├── glossary.qmd                      Glossary of Terms in Occasional Use
├── appendix-traffic-sanctions.qmd    Comparative sanctions, Andalusian capitals
├── note-on-method.qmd                Note on Authorship and Method
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└── _assets/
    ├── civic-darwinism.scss          Light theme
    ├── civic-darwinism-dark.scss     Dark theme
    ├── references.bib                Bibliography
    └── figures/                      Plates and data figures

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Build locally

The volume is authored in Quarto and renders to HTML.

git clone https://github.com/utilizas/urbe.git
cd urbe
quarto render

To preview with live reload:

quarto preview

The output is written to _book/. Two SCSS themes — light and dark — are declared in _quarto.yml as separate files; Quarto's native toggle handles the switch and persists the reader's preference in localStorage.

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Citation

If you cite this work, please use the metadata in CITATION.cff. GitHub renders it automatically as a "Cite this repository" widget in the sidebar. A DOI will be minted on the first Zenodo release and added to this README at that point.

A working citation in author-date form, prior to the DOI:

Moreno, M. (2026). Overrun: A Resident's Report on a City Past Its Limits. Civic Darwinism, Vol. I. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19533278 · https://urbe-ten.vercel.app/

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Licence

© 2026 Miguel Moreno.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). You are free to share and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, provided you give appropriate credit and distribute any derivative work under the same terms. The illustrations, generated as described in the methodological note, are subject to the same licence as the text they accompany.

The terms permit translations, critical editions and academic adaptations under the same licence; they do not permit commercial reuse without explicit permission.

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Method

The text was composed between early 2025 and spring 2026 as a collaboration between a human author and a large language model, under a working brief and tonal rules established before any chapter was drafted. The conditions of production are documented in note-on-method.qmd and rendered at the end of the volume; they are recorded not as a disclaimer but as a methodological fact, on the principle that withholding them would be inconsistent with the analytical standards the volume has tried to maintain elsewhere.