[Tag · 5 essays]
[Essay · Digital urbanization 11/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]
A ten-question canvas for an evidence-based enterprise architecture assessment that covers the seven DWU systems plus habitability, informal settlements and urban debt. It includes a filled-in fictional case and a way to test whether the canvas actually helps.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 9/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Digital urbanization approaches AI agent governance through civic identity. Verifiable AI agent identity, an accountable sponsor, jurisdiction, bounded delegation and revocation, worked through the civic profile of a purchasing agent in the fictional Northstar case.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 6/12 · 17 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Data governance in the digital urbanization framework. Operational records, data products, lineage, semantics and vector indexes form a subsurface that needs an owner, a map and controlled connections, and the three margins of the fictional Northstar case show why.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 2/12 · 16 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Information-system urbanization, a French-language architecture tradition, already separated stable capabilities from changing implementations. What it proposed, what it leaves out once cloud platforms, data products and AI agents arrive, and how Digital-World Urbanization extends it.
[Essay · Digital urbanization 1/12 · 18 min · Sep 25, 2026]
Enterprise architecture tends to govern a company's digital environment as an application portfolio. DWU proposes reading it as a territory inhabited by people, systems and AI agents, organized into seven interdependent systems.