Hshcaeff- Worldbuilding

"The Built Environment" City/Town Organization "Haphazard" or "As needed" (no organization, just added on over time) "Oriented towards the landscape, or non-grid" "Grid layout" "Central/Circular layout"- hierarchy, whats in the center tends to be the most important thing! Topography -all major cities of the world are built on/near a body of water Green Space -can be organized (Central park) Transportation Networks (streets, subways, paths) -City defense! Building "Types" Commercial buildings- factories, where manufacturing takes place, office buildings, banks, markets/stores/shops Institutional- government buildings, schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, prisons, museums, stadiums, theaters, Monuments, leisure (theme parks) Religious buildings- "houses of gods", celebrating harvests, Leisure Residential buildings- individual, communal (apartments) Serpentes civilization is ...

What kind of deviant is your world? Anomie: Basic premise- a disjuncture within the cultural system between the Goals (values) which define our lives and the culturally determined, institutionalized, legitimate Means (norms) for achieving them. Merton argues that deviance results from the culture and structure of society itself. Since members of society are placed in different positions in the social structure (e.g. they differ in terms of class position), they do not have the same opportunity of realizing the shared values. This situation can generate deviance. Cultural Goals and Institutionalized Means -Members of American society share the major values of American culture, particularly the goal of success, largely measured in terms of wealth and meterial possessions. -the accepted ways of achieving success are through education, talent, hard work, drive, determination and ambition. In a balanced society an equal emphasis is placed upon both cultural goals and institutio...

Humanoid population of Serpentes Family Structure- what's a family? who are kin? what is marriage and its arrangement? all individual foraging clans are considered families, and they treat each other as such (blood or not). Each clan has at least two leaders- which are the eldest mated pair, which can be a same-sex relationship or heterosexual one, or a mix of both. Family/clan structure normally has 6-8 members. The mated m/f pair can have up to 3 young, clans prefer to have a controllable amount of mouths to feed, so a single birthing (m/f) pair per clan is common. After young are born, all of the adults of the clan take up parenting duties, regardless of blood relation. This forms a strong familial bond with all members of the clan. The concept of 'Marriage' is recognized by this culture, however it is a more private affair than a public one. Specifically, 'marriage' is a ceremony established when a pair/group of adult Serpentesians go off on their own ...