What if where you live no longer determines how you live?

For centuries, opportunity has been tied to place. If you want a better life, you move. This book challenges that assumption.

Urban concentration creates growth, but also limits. Inequality is not accidental; it is structural. Migration is often not a choice, but a result of conditions.

Mobility = f (Infrastructure Deficit × Employment Concentration)

When infrastructure is lacking and jobs are concentrated, people are forced to move.

This book introduces “Global Locality”: a condition where anyone, anywhere, can access urban-level living standards. This is not about geography, but infrastructure. When electricity, water, and connectivity are evenly distributed, the need to move disappears.

The focus shifts from income redistribution to infrastructure distribution, from results to conditions. It also provides measurable indicators such as infrastructure coverage, living standard gaps, and forced mobility.

Even when survival conditions are equal, opportunity can remain concentrated. The next step is moving from “you can live anywhere” to “you can succeed anywhere.”

People are not moving toward cities. They are escaping constraints.

Remove the constraints, and mobility becomes a choice.