Daycare through university
School is one floor
above your home.
Daycare, K–12, two years abroad, and a university pipeline — all included in the monthly fee, all governed by the stewards who live here.
[Image: rooftop school — stone mansard, children at tables, open sky, URB building below]
1:12 teacher ratio
417 teachers for 5,000 K–12 students. Every class stays small.
Rooftop school
The mansard of every URB building is a dedicated campus. No commute.
Teacher LLCs
Educators earn from the community they serve, not a distant school district.
Free daycare
Ages 0–5. On the URB rooftop. 1:6 staff ratio. Fully covered.
2-yr growth abroad
Two years in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities worldwide before university.
URBAL University
Oxford-model pipeline. Every town has a college. Every Bunch has a flagship.
[Image: rooftop campus — children, teacher, stone parapet, sky behind]
K–12 on the Rooftop
School is one floor up. No bus, no drop-off, no commute.
K–12 above the dwellings. 1:12 teacher ratio. Daycare ages 0–5 co-located. All included in your monthly fee.
[Image: teacher LLC — small professional group, accountable to town stewards]
Teacher LLCs
Teachers earn from the community they serve. Voted in every year.
Teacher LLCs hold their lease like any Spice Tray business — annual steward vote, no tenure, accountable to the people next door.
[Image: Grand Tour — four countries, four industries, two years abroad]
The Grand Tour
Two years. Four placements. Four countries. Before university — not instead of it.
The GI Bill generation arrived at college with military service behind them. They had seen the world before they sat in a classroom. The Grand Tour is URBAL's mechanism for ensuring every graduate — regardless of family income — arrives at university with that same depth of worldly formation.
6 months
Placement 1 — Manufacturing, construction, or agriculture in a different country
6 months
Placement 2 — Healthcare, public policy, or urban planning
6 months
Placement 3 — Technology, research, or finance
6 months
Placement 4 — Community-matched to student's declared interest track
[Image: URBAL University — collegiate courtyard, stone buildings, global stewards]
URBAL University
Oxbridge tutorial model. Three tracks. One college per town.
Small groups. Written work. Discussion. The expectation that students defend their ideas rather than passively receive information. Every Bunch has a flagship university. One college per town feeds it.
Professional + Research
Knowledge economy careers: engineering, medicine, law, architecture, science, finance. The formation investment that used to justify $200K in student debt — now covered collectively.
Trades
The crafts, construction, and technical disciplines that build and maintain the stone towns. CNC fabrication, masonry, district heating, SMR maintenance, urban agriculture.
Governance
For the stewards who will run these communities. Direct democracy mechanics, AI deliberation tools, immutable ledger operations, community land trust administration.
Take a closer look
Twenty years. Every stage. All included.
Daycare
Daycare
Ages 0–5. Rooftop. 1:6 ratio. Covered.
Universal daycare for ages 0–5 is located on the rooftop mansard of every URB building — the same level as K–12, separated by age group. 1:6 staff-to-child ratio. No waitlist, no separate billing, no subsidy application. It is included in the monthly fee that every steward pays, regardless of whether they have children.
K–12
1:12 ratio. 417 teachers. Resident educators.
5,000 K–12 students, 417 teachers, all resident stewards. The 1:12 ratio is a structural design constraint — class sizes cannot exceed it without a steward vote to change the allocation. Teacher LLCs are accountable through the Mainstay annual review. Every December, stewards vote on renewal.
Teacher LLC model
Educators earn from community, not district.
Teachers are organized as small professional LLCs — typically 3–5 educators covering a grade range. They hold their lease on the rooftop campus the same way a café holds its Mainstay lease on the Spice Tray: by demonstrating value to the community every year. Accountability is structural, not political.
The Grand Tour
4 placements × 6 months. 4 countries. Fully funded.
Before entering URBAL University, every graduate enters a 2-year structured apprenticeship program. Four placements, six months each, in different countries and different industries. One might be in manufacturing in Germany. Another in urban planning in the Netherlands. Another in healthcare in Denmark. Another in technology in South Korea or construction in France. The specific placements are matched to student interests and community needs. There are no certificates, no grades, no formal assessment — the goal is formation, not credentialing. Students who arrive at university having worked alongside people whose assumptions about daily life differ fundamentally from their own bring something no amount of coursework can replicate. The GI Bill generation arrived at college with military service behind them. The Grand Tour is URBAL's mechanism for ensuring every student — regardless of family background — arrives with that same depth of worldly formation. Funded by the $0.020/sqft Growth Education escrow that all stewards contribute.
URBAL University
Oxbridge tutorial. 3 tracks. One college per town.
Every URBAL town has its own college building. Every Bunch (9 towns) has a flagship university. The pedagogical model draws on the Oxbridge tutorial tradition — small groups, written work, discussion, the expectation that students defend their ideas rather than passively receive information. Not because URBAL is replicating an elite British institution, but because the research on learning is unambiguous: people learn by doing, by writing, by arguing, by being held accountable for their thinking in small groups where hiding is impossible. Three tracks: professional and research (for the knowledge economy careers that justify the formation investment), trades (for the crafts, construction, and technical disciplines that built the stone towns), and governance (for the stewards who will run them). Children of stewards receive priority admissions. Tuition is covered through the Growth Education escrow — the same fund that financed the Grand Tour.
All in the fee
Daycare through university. One number.
Daycare ($0.030/sqft), K–12 teacher LLCs ($0.055/sqft), and Growth Education ($0.020/sqft) together cost $0.105/sqft per month — $126/month for a 2BR. That is the total cost of education from birth through university. Every dollar has a named escrow, a performance metric, and a steward vote governing renewal.
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