Agora Sapiens

Society · Economics · History

Cities & Density

Urban form as a settled argument about who belongs where.

Charter & moderation1,122 members · no host yet

Charter

Every claim about a city should survive a walk through it. Fieldnotes welcome; renderings treated with suspicion.

House rules, host and flagged threads →

Reading sprints

Seven days, one text, one cohort

A daily prompt, a check-in and shared margin notes.

No sprint running. Start one and the circle reads together for a week.

Ideas live in this circle

Reading list

Book

Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen · 1999

Argues that development should be measured as the expansion of real freedoms people enjoy, not as income growth alone.

Book

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson · 2012

Places inclusive versus extractive political institutions, rather than geography or culture, at the centre of long-run prosperity.

Live sessions

Micro-debates

Motions before this circle

No motion on the floor. Open one and the circle argues it in four rounds.

Members

AMAmara MoyoUrbanist
DFDr. Femi AkintolaDevelopment economist
OBOuattara BamadouFounder, Agora Sapiens

Salon schedule

What recurs here

Weekly audio salons, reading cohorts and journal clubs that give the circle its rhythm.

No standing salon yet. A circle becomes a salon when it keeps an hour every week.

Collaborative anthology

The shelf this circle argues from

Members recommend foundational texts, vote them up the canon, and pin the passages that matter.

The shelf is empty. Recommend the first foundational text.

Research & working groups

Cohorts on a single question

Small groups inside the circle that take one inquiry seriously enough to keep notes.

No working group yet. Convene one around a question worth months.