Jurisdiction is the defined domain within which institutional authority holds.
It establishes the boundaries, hierarchy, and conditions under which land, architecture, and spatial order are governed as a coherent whole.
Jurisdiction fixes where authority applies.
Through jurisdiction, territory is constituted as an ordered domain.
Land, access, boundaries, and spatial structure are aligned within a single hierarchy, held as a continuous system.
Territory remains legible across time and succession.
Jurisdiction establishes the conditions under which environments remain coherent, governable, and intact.
These conditions bind land, built form, and spatial order as a unified domain, capable of enduring change without loss of structure.
Once established, jurisdiction holds these conditions as stable order.
Jurisdiction binds authority to territory.
It secures legitimacy across succession by fixing the spatial domain within which governance operates.
Through jurisdiction, authority remains continuous as stewardship, use, and occupation evolve.
Jurisdiction defines the domain.
Governance exercises authority within that domain.
Together, they secure environments capable of enduring across time.
What is ordered endures.