Cell-Like Communities

One of the goals that I am trying to achieve is drawing connections between biology and politics. A nation can be treated as an organism, in fact, and when it is, it helps to provide a framework for understanding situations at the upper levels of organization.

Part of this is also examining the individual, and how each plays a part in keeping the organism as a whole healthy.

To illustrate what I mean, I pulled a drawing from my notes of a completely pre-planned community that is organized in a cellular structure.

To protect the community and regulate the input and output, the brown boxes represent a series of loading docks, where imports are unloaded, and exports are unloaded. The yellow corners represent where people enter and exit the community.

The gray outer portion of the community is all commercial. This area serves a double purpose: where people make their money, and where they spend it.

The red inner part of the cell is the residential area, where people make their homes, and where they utilize much of what they buy.

The blue inner section is a park or some form of recreational area. Recreation can also take place in other areas, but people often feel a need for wide open spaces that don't necessarily provide themselves in this type of organized community.

Looks like a cell, doesn't it? I didn't actually create this by basing it off of a picture of a cell, I started out by thinking, what type of community would be able to serve a purpose while maintaining the health of the individuals in that community?