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https://github.com/sara-star-quant/cor-del-mon

Cor del Món, six cities beat as one. A creative-research network of cities of culture and exchange sharing one synchronized heartbeat: Andorra, Yokohama, Adelaide, Valparaíso, Cape Town, Jaipur. A 2027-to-2065 love letter to urbanism.
https://github.com/sara-star-quant/cor-del-mon

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Cor del Món, six cities beat as one. A creative-research network of cities of culture and exchange sharing one synchronized heartbeat: Andorra, Yokohama, Adelaide, Valparaíso, Cape Town, Jaipur. A 2027-to-2065 love letter to urbanism.

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# Cor del Món, the Global Heart Network



*Six cities beat as one.*



This repository holds the design proposal and prototype site for **Cor del Món**, a

quiet family of six cities of culture and exchange that share the same lovable idea, each one

shaped by its own country's spirit, its own materials and motifs, its own seismic

reality.



The first wave is **Andorra la Vella** (the seed), **Yokohama**, **Adelaide**,

**Valparaíso**, **Cape Town**, and **Jaipur**. Above all of them sits a

landing page, *Cor del Món*, which means "Heart of the World" in Catalan.



Every site shares a synchronized heartbeat, a nine-section structure, and a

**rolling-wave** milestone narrative (Charter, Break Ground, Operational, Generation)

where each city moves at its own city-specific pace, not a synchronized handover.

The first city, *Andorra · El Cor Viu*, is the seed; each other city is shaped to

its own skyline, materials, languages, and binding constraints.



## The current state



All six wave-1 cities are live. Each city's monument is sized to its own skyline:

**Andorra 33m**, **Yokohama 120m**, **Adelaide 65m**, **Valparaíso 47m**, **Cape Town 99m**,

**Jaipur 28m**. The rolling-wave schedule has Andorra opening 2032, Adelaide and Yokohama

2035-2036, and Valparaíso, Cape Town, and Jaipur reaching Operational by 2038-2040.



The network broadcast (Cor FM and Cor Kids TV) runs from a single hub anchored in

Andorra, with each operational city contributing a weekly hour in its own language.

There is no per-city radio station; the Yokohama Hour, Adelaide Hour, Valparaíso Hour,

Cape Town Hour, and Jaipur Hour are weekly slots inside the network broadcast.



## Read it first



If you have arrived here from a search engine or a friend, the warmest places to

start are:



- **Andorra · El Cor Viu**, the seed page, in Catalan and English.

- **[`network-constitution.md`](network-constitution.md)**, the easy-to-read charter:

  the nine mandatory sections every city honours, the synchronized heartbeat,

  the Cor Residency and Biennale mechanics, the four milestone years, and

  how a new city signs the Cor Charter to join.

- **[`DISCLAIMER.md`](DISCLAIMER.md)**, the full disclaimer covering professional

  advice, named entities, illustrative numbers, and the no-funds, no-investment,

  no-consultancy posture of the project.



## How it is built



This is a **zero-build-step** site. There is no Webpack, no Vite, no Next.js, no

package manager involved. Every page is a single self-contained HTML file that

loads **React 18.2.0** and **Babel-standalone 7.23.9** from a public CDN, and a

tiny shared module of UI components from `/_shared/cor-shared-v1.js`. (React 18.3.1

and React 19.0.0 exist; the conservative 18.2.0 pin is intentional for a static

site that should not rebreak when a CDN moves.)



To work on it locally:



```sh

# from the repository root

python3 -m http.server 8000

# then open http://localhost:8000 in your browser

```



A small note on previewing: do not open the HTML files via `file://`. The shared

module is loaded as a ``, which browsers refuse to execute

from `file://` for security reasons. The tiny static server above is the easiest

fix.



## Tests



The repo ships with a 90-test Playwright suite under `tests/` covering smoke

checks (every URL responds, every JSON parses, key strings are present), end-to-end

behaviour (React renders, synchronized heartbeat animates and stays phase-locked

across browser tabs), AJV schema validation (every per-city vocab object validates

against `_shared/vocab.schema.json`), Visual Identity invariants (nine sections, rose

token, NetworkNav, wordmark), and an internal-link integrity sweep across every page.



```sh

cd tests

npm install

npx playwright install chromium    # first time only, downloads Chromium

npx playwright test                 # boots a local static server and runs everything

```



To run against the live deployed site instead of localhost:



```sh

BASE_URL=https://sara-star-quant.github.io/cor-del-mon npx playwright test

```



The `tests/` directory is dev tooling only. None of it is deployed to GitHub Pages.



## Privacy and analytics



There are no analytics on this site. No cookies, no tracking pixels, no third-party

beacons. A project about love does not need surveillance.



The only third-party requests are to public CDNs (cdnjs for React and Babel,

Google Fonts for typography). If you would like a fully self-hosted version with

no third-party requests at all, that is a small change worth doing once we are

past the prototype stage. Open an issue if you would like to push it forward.



## License



Two licenses, by intent:



- **[`LICENSE`](LICENSE)** covers the **code** (every JS, HTML, JSON, CSS, workflow, and

  configuration file). It is the **PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0**, a modern,

  legally robust source-available license. You may read, study, modify, and

  share the code for any purpose that is not commercial.



- **[`LICENSE-content.md`](LICENSE-content.md)** covers the **prose, design rationale, research,

  architectural language descriptions, and milestone narrative**. It is

  **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)**.

  You may quote, cite, adapt, and redistribute the writing with attribution,

  for any non-commercial purpose.



Commercial use is not granted by either licence. The project does not offer commercial

licensing, paid consultancy, design services, partnership for fee, or any other paid

arrangement. No funds have been raised, applied for, awarded, committed, or accepted.

For corrections, native-speaker review, community review, or removal requests, open a

public contact thread on GitHub Issues or use the email in [`DISCLAIMER.md`](DISCLAIMER.md).



## Contributing



Contributions are welcome from anyone who reads the work and feels the pulse of it.

A few light norms:



- Open an issue first for anything bigger than a typo, so we can talk through it.

- Match the warm, conversational voice of the existing prose. No corporate

  language. No buzzwords. No em-dashes (a small house style).

- Keep the no-build-step contract. Anything that introduces Webpack, npm, or

  similar tooling is out of scope.

- Honour the **Cor Visual Identity** invariants in `_shared/cor-visual-identity.md`:

  the heart silhouette is one shared SVG path, every site has nine sections in

  the fixed order, the heartbeat ticks at 60 BPM in sync across all cities, and

  the rose-family accent palette is never broken.



## Credits



*Cor del Món* is a design proposal by **sara-star-quant**.



The Andorra page draws on the rhythms of Catalan poetry, the architecture of the

Pyrenees, and the everyday warmth of Andorran communes. The other five cities

are designed in respectful dialogue with their local materials, motifs, and

contemporary architectural practices, named in each city's `vocab.js`.



If you build on this work, an attribution to *Cor del Món / sara-star-quant /

cor-del-mon* with a link back to this repository is gratefully received.