Failing systems---political, social, infrastructure---have created many of the challenges facing countries today. The majority of our world’s cities grapple ineffectively with conditions like violence, hunger, poverty and prejudice that ferment undesirable social conditions, which in turn divide humanity, destroy social systems and contribute to major global afflictions. Growing rates of crime, hate, prejudice, inequality, and public isolation exacerbate negative social separation. These socially challenged people impede healthy functions of society by distancing factions, and threaten the beauty of life. Can the city itself, offer part of the solution? Could different city structures, the actual architecture itself be part of the solution? Yes.

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The stimulus for architectural growth are these; maturing social tensions, disorderly populations, and sub-par resource management. Where social ‘environments’ determine a person’s behavior through nurturing, and personalities develop through socialization, the architecture of social stratification is incredibly important to repair burgeoning social dysfunctions. Our children’s after school hangouts (Malls & retail shopping), and subjective adult entertainment (casinos & bars), all perpetuate public separation rather than create positive social exchange. These capital driven ecosystems lend little inspiration to change, and birth poor social environments. At present time the American economy centers on the tertiary sector where humans produce less goods, but foster more ideas. These massive corporations wield power to influence capital or social based structures, but the corporate tentacles reach further and propose a third type of economic revolution –the social business. However they’re all talk with little action. The bipartisanship of development-disciplines and community needs equals a positive outcome so it’s time to work together to create crucial change.  
 
This citizen compelled architecture is interested in repairing, opposed to disrupting, the current social fabric by creating unorthodox urban constructs. While buildings (as art and technic) are the core of this Thesis, the perspective of architecture as artifact would be the question of interactions between architecture and subject: how a very specific architecture suggests certain ways, movements, interactions, and perceptions of people. The Social science inaugurates new processes and mechanisms for change through collective and democratic data exploration. The production of architectonic artifacts, guided by process driven collaborative-resources rather than over specific physical-determinists, will build social capital through a collective caring process. By facilitating the social healing process this way we strengthen our local interactions, and give new purpose for community exchange. Our cities disparately need new common-place infrastructure, public spaces for leisure, and civil transportation, designed with long term societal goals.