cadastral

comparative more cadastral · superlative most cadastral · alternative cadasteral

1. cartographyof or relating to a cadastre

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   What could be seen from the satellites above as urbanization was therefore also something like the spread of the cadastral fabric that serves as the literal foundation on which capitalist production takes place. Rather than simply urban construction, then, the process was a simultaneously ecological and sociotechnical transformation in which all plots of land were cut into non-overlapping parcels with their use rights and resources assigned owners and the plots themselves given market values.

   2025, Phil Neel, chapter 1, in Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory, Brill, pages 44-45

plural cadastrals

1. A cadastre.