The Darwinian case for socializing habitat values: the walking tour

Darwin's theory of evolution rests on the argument that speciation occurs due to the dynamic biological response of species to the changing circumstances of life.

In the human experience, location values evolve in dynamic response to the changing desirability of one bit of human habitat over another.

The inability to monopolize (over time) habitat is the biological engine driving adaptations resulting in speciation, Darwin posited. Come along on a walking tour, nominally about the intersection of real estate and social justice matters, that posits that monopolization of human habitat by private command of location values distorts the evolution of society by delivering to private interests the value of community represented in location values.

Repeated in other words for clarification: just as animal and plant communities synergistically create richer or poorer biomass locations, so do human communities synergistically generate locational values.

This free, long-running walking tour asks, what are the political implications of this observation, and does so while surveying 11 San Francisco social stories, ranging from the Ohlone displacements and the Mormon hegira to the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements.