"The grey men had come to the city. Nobody knew exactly when they had arrived or where they had come from." — Michael Ende, Momo (1973)
The administration of Formgård operates through the Office of Canonical Stewardship, which maintains the Registry of Resolved Forms: a live document, updated quarterly, that specifies which objects are authorized for public placement, at what scale, and in which districts. The Registry does not use the word 'forbidden.' It uses the phrase 'aesthetically unresolved,' which functions identically. No application process exists to add an object to the Registry; objects are added by consensus of the Stewardship Committee, whose membership is not published and whose meeting times are [REDACTED — the Committee's scheduling protocol is itself considered an aesthetically sensitive document], though Dariusz Wolff, Velodrome Chaplain and Bicycle Infrastructure Philosopher, has observed that the bicycle lane expansion proposals he submits each spring are returned, annotated, exactly nineteen days later, always in the same precise handwriting, always signed only 'the Committee.' The practical cons...
From the lore of The Panopticon of Good Taste.