Relationality, agency, contemplation and creativity are ways of bringing individuals together through shared aspiration and common good. As Jane Jacobs said, “cities have the capability of providing something for everyone, only because, and only when they are created by everybody”. The city is an ecosystem, whose components are a product of the people who govern them. Streets, buildings and neighbourhoods are an active representation of the diversity of communities that inhabit them, and this diversity can create vitality and creativity. Here architecture is the canvas on which rituals are painted. What was once a seemingly mundane and generic environment becomes coloured by its inhabitants and serves to benefit those who steward them. The reason that these environments feel familiar to us is that they contain a fundamentally human approach to design. Activities such as farming, discourse and play provide reason to function outside of the private good, whilst also providing education to those in the community. By shifting the community’s function from consuming goods and services to also producing goods and services, the neighborhood’s environmental impact is reduced and social bonds strengthened. In this manner functioning for common interest rather than individual liberal gain provides a sense of unity and purpose.