Clusters
Groupings of work that belong together for a reason no single topic captures.
A topic is a subject. A cluster is an argument that a particular set of work should be read together — a line of enquiry, a body of evidence, a debate. Every one states why, because a grouping without a stated reason is a list, and nobody can tell what ought to be added to a list.
Membership is partly curated and partly generated from topics. Where the two disagree the curation wins, and each member below says which it was.
For the subjects themselves see topics, and for the same work indexed by what each page is, kinds of thing.
3 collected
Techniques for charts that work without color vision, without a mouse, and without sight. Grouped because the constraints interact: a fix for one channel frequently breaks another.
5 members
The recurring explanation for why policies fail in delivery. Collected because the claim is invoked far more often than it is measured, and gathering the evidence in one place makes that visible.
6 members
How resilience is defined and measured, and what the chosen measure rewards. Collected because the definition is contested and most work adopts one without saying which.
2 members
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Defined, with nothing collected under them so far. Each gets a page once there is something to put on it.
- Boston displacement
- One place over time, so that policy, market change and outcome can be read against each other rather than in separate literatures. Place-bounded clusters are the only honest way to discuss displacement, which is local by nature.
- Community land trusts
- A specific ownership form with a long enough record to argue about. Groups the instruments, the organizations running them and the outcomes measured, because the interesting question is whether the form delivers what it promises.
- Cooperative ownership
- Worker and consumer cooperatives, their governance structures and their documented performance. Kept separate from community land trusts because the ownership question and the governance question come apart here.
- Political campaign funding
- Contributions, committees and expenditures traced through filings. Grouped because the value is entirely in the connections: a single filing says almost nothing and the network says a great deal.
- Public finance methods
- The methods used to analyze public budgets, with their assumptions attached. Collected so a method can be chosen by what it assumes rather than by what is familiar.