At a time when metropolises centralize power, when the countryside is emptying, and crises follow one another, it is time to restore to small towns and villages their role as the beating heart of civilization.

Inspired by the wisdom of Plato and fueled by the boldness of contemporary innovation, Paul Elvere DELSART, also known as Henry HARPER, envisions a world where every small municipality becomes an autonomous city-state, connected to others through networks of solidarity, ecology, and intellectual cooperation. This ambitious structural project, named the EL4DEV Confederation, sketches nothing less than a civilizational rebirth: an ethical knowledge-based economy built on social entrepreneurship, international cooperation, shared multifunctional infrastructures, vegetal proliferation, highly participatory governance, and a youth entrusted with a chivalric mission of a new era to regenerate the world.

From Ancient Greece to Europe in 2050, passing through the emergence of the flagship city of Torreblanca, Castellón in Spain, this book, at the crossroads between short essay and novella, maps out the path of a global transformation: forgotten villages could become the foundational stones of the last, most powerful, and most just of Empires: the Green Empire of the East and the West.

Pragmatic utopia, manifesto, call to action – The Reconquista EL4DEV, or Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages, is an invitation to rethink politics, economics, and spirituality in our declining societies. And to understand that the true revolution begins... at a human scale.