# Graph

Stable edges name mechanisms. The graph never uses related_to as a final predicate. Each edge keeps direction, conditions, perspective, claim layer, confidence, evidence, and consequence.

## Core traversal

- [Groundbreaking Ritual](../nodes/relics/groundbreaking-ritual.md) — Groundbreaking Ritual gives tangible form to otherwise abstract changes in belonging and authority
- [Topping-Out Ceremony](../nodes/relics/topping-out-ceremony.md) — Topping-Out Ceremony gives tangible form to otherwise abstract changes in belonging and authority
- [Ribbon Cutting](../nodes/relics/ribbon-cutting.md) — Ribbon Cutting gives tangible form to otherwise abstract changes in belonging and authority
- [Scarcity](../nodes/forces/scarcity.md) — Scarcity keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Liquidity](../nodes/forces/liquidity.md) — Liquidity keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Interest Rate](../nodes/forces/interest-rate.md) — Interest Rate keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Inflation](../nodes/forces/inflation.md) — Inflation keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Duration](../nodes/forces/duration.md) — Duration keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Rootedness](../nodes/forces/rootedness.md) — Rootedness keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Mobility](../nodes/forces/mobility.md) — Mobility keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Use Value](../nodes/forces/use-value.md) — Use Value keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Exchange Value](../nodes/forces/exchange-value.md) — Exchange Value keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Shelter versus Investment](../nodes/forces/shelter-versus-investment.md) — Shelter versus Investment keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Home versus Collateral](../nodes/forces/home-versus-collateral.md) — Home versus Collateral keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Ownership versus Access](../nodes/forces/ownership-versus-access.md) — Ownership versus Access keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Preservation versus Growth](../nodes/forces/preservation-versus-growth.md) — Preservation versus Growth keeps competing maps visible without reducing either side to a slogan
- [Neighborhood](../nodes/home/neighborhood.md) — Neighborhood connects private parcels through shared services, externalities, identity, and fate
- [Externality](../nodes/home/externality.md) — Externality connects private parcels through shared services, externalities, identity, and fate

## How to read this chapter

Follow claims and cash flows separately. Ask who holds authority, who supplies information, who receives benefit, who carries risk, and what changes when time or scale changes. Keep sourced fact, industry practice, synthesis, interpretation, and symbolic expression distinguishable.

## Mapshifting prompts

1. Change the unit of analysis from property to right, loan, cash flow, role, record, neighborhood, or institution.
2. Change the clock from closing day to thirty years, one market cycle, one building life, or several generations.
3. Change stakeholder and ask which previously invisible cost becomes central.
4. Return to the human map before choosing a move.

## Sentinel handoff

Legal, regulatory, fair-lending, historical, financial, cultural, and jurisdiction-specific annotations remain separate from Engine Output. They inform contextual use without flattening the graph.
