“Housing is not simple… It is shelter, and it is also a financial asset, a retirement strategy, a tax base, and a source of local wealth, all shaped by regulations and finance systems and migration patterns and interest rates and demographics in ways that interact and resist clean summary.” – Chuck Marohn

Expanding on the elements of Housing (Live) complexity to Work, Play, Learn, Govern, Heal, Move, and Worship at the Neighborhood/Transit Center Scale (160-acres), Within each activity is a list of how they affect the private individual person, private company, and public entity. The intention is to be a useful measuring matrix of mixed-use neighborhoods outcomes in economic and social terms (environmental is later). These are the details of Leon Krier’s Civitas cartoon depicting the public/private/collective realms that build cities we live our daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, annual lives within. 

THE INSTITUTIONS OF A DAILY LIFE x LIFE CYCLE – PRIMARY/secondary Realms

Housing (Live) – PRIVATE/public

• Detached Housing
• Attached Housing
  • Public Housing
  • Senior Housing
  • Homeless Facilities
  • Emergency Facilities

Shops (Work – Retail and Commerce) – PRIVATE

• In-Home Offices/Shops
• Attached Inline Shops
  • Specialty Centers (Lifestyle, Power, Strip Malls)
• Detached Shops (Standalone or Inline)
  • Retail shopping
  • Dining and Entertainments
  • Specialty Stores
  • Grocery Stores
  • Professional Offices
  • Workshops
  • Storage Facilities
  • Manufacturing
  • Resorts

Play (Parks, Recreation, and Nature) – PUBLIC/Private

• Indoor
  • Gyms, private
  • Swimming Pools
  • Race Tracks
• Outdoor
  • Gyms, private
  • Recreation (golf courses, racing tracks), private
  • Amusement Parks (zoos), public/private
  • Plazas, Squares, Greens
  • Sports fields, golf courses
  • Equestrian facilities, private
  • Nature reserves, preserves, parks trail access
  • Water features, bays, shores, estuaries, creeks, streams, and rivers
  • Steep slopes, canyons, and unbuildable areas

Learn – PUBLIC/PRIVATE

• K – 12, Public
• K – 12, Private and Religious
• Higher and Trade Education, Public (City and State) and Private
• Day Care

Worship (Churches, Temples, Mosques) – PUBLIC/PRIVATE

• Places of Ceremony
• Education
• Cemeteries

Governance – PUBLIC (Local, State, Federal)

• Military Facilities (State and Federal)
• Jails
• Certificates
  • Birth, Marriage, Death, Driving, etc…
• Emergency Services, Fire, Police, Ambulance
• Tax Collection, Distribution
• Local Post Offices, Libraries
• Municipal Governance offices
• Federal, State, City Courthouses, Jails
• State Agencies hearing rooms and offices
• City Hall, City Facilities
• Community/Town Halls
• Cemeteries

Health Care – PUBLIC/PRIVATE

• Medical offices
• Hospice care clinics
• Outpatient clinics
• Inpatient Hospitals
  • Births, Emergency, Deaths

Mobility – PUBLIC/PRIVATE

• Streets and Transit Facilities, Public
• Automobile and delivery services, Private
• Freight trucks, private
• Parking on/off-street, garage facilities, public and private
• Port Facilities, public/private
  • Airplanes
  • Trains
  • Ships

More Details of each of these interact with the private Individual, private business, and public government.

Housing interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• shelter
• financial asset
• retirement strategy
• source of local wealth
• social connections

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• financial asset
• interest rates
• finance systems

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• tax base
• finance systems
• migration patterns
• demographics
• shaped by regulations
• revenue source

Business interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• source of income
• financial asset
• retirement strategy
• source of local wealth
• social connections

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• financial asset
• interest rates
• finance systems

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• tax base
• finance systems
• migration patterns
• demographics
• shaped by regulations
• organizational connections
• revenue source

Recreating interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• personal respite/joy
• personal enhancement
• social connection
• to play or perform

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• employee supply/retention
• financial investment
• finance systems

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• revenue expense
• finance systems
• citizen/taxpayer supply/retention
• demographics
• shaped by regulations

Learning interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• personal enhancement
• business strategy
• financial asset
• retirement strategy
• social connection
• source of future wealth
• interest rates on loans (indebtedness)

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• employee supply/retention
• financial investment
• finance systems

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• tax base
• finance systems
• migration patterns
• demographics
• shaped by regulations
• organizational connections

Worshiping interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• personal enhancement
• social connection
• moral pattern

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• financial systems
• education

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• demographics
• organizational connections

Governance interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• funding source
• personal connection
• social connection
• moral pattern
• education

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• funding source
• political connections
• financial systems

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• expenditures/investments (subsidies)
• finance systems (subsidies)
• mobility/access patterns (streets)
• health (code enforcement/parks)
• welfare (code enforcement/parks)
• safety (policy, fire, code enforcement)
• policies/regulations (housing/mobility)
• demographics
• organizational connections

Health Care interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• health, welfare, safety
• financial expenditure
• safety net
• birth, life, death (cradle to grave)

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• employee supply/retention
• financial investment,
• financial / employee burden
• finance systems

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• mobility/access patterns (streets)
• health (code enforcement/parks)
• welfare (code enforcement/parks)
• safety (policy, fire, code enforcement)
• policies/regulations (housing/mobility)

Mobility interacts with:

FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

• accessing the region, nation
• accessing home
• accessing employment
• accessing recreation/health care services
• (we buy private autos and fuel with access to public transportation and road facilities)

FOR PRIVATE BUSINESSES

• employee access
• client access
• sales access
• distribution connection/access (planes, trains, trucks, boats)

FOR PUBLIC ENTITIES

• mobility/access patterns (streets and transit facilities)
• planes, trains, and shipping (commerce controlled by regional agencies, port/airport/rail agencies)
• safety (policy, fire, code enforcement)
• policies/regulations (housing/mobility)
• expenditures/investments (subsidies)
• finance systems (subsidies)
• (we pay taxes to maintain thoroughfares for commerce and access)