A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world, only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

...towns and buildings will not be able to become alive, unless they are made by all the people in society...

If you spend eight hours of your day at work, and eight hours at home, there is no reason why your workplace should be any less of a community than your home.