Transport here is deliberately humane. Streets favor pedestrians; small electric ferries ripple across a canal that mirrors the city’s art—murals, projected films, choreographed light shows. A community-run repair café hums under a painted bridge, where people barter fixes for recipes and laughter. The municipal app nudges citizens toward civic acts: a compost swap, a neighborhood reading hour, a rooftop sapling-planting event; gamified badges appear, but the real reward is the quiet knowledge that someone else will water your basil when you’re away.