There are many aspects of life that will be discussed as Gardenworlds are organized. Taken all together we have a civilization. The following are suggestive, not complete, but hint at the complexity of even the simplest human organization (and for other species) The layer that gets the most discussion in the beginning includes:
most essential
food
shelter
basic energy (cooking. warmth)
kinship
aesthetics (any placement of food and shelter has the pleasure of arrangement)
But these cannot be done without some consideration or argument about other material considerations
clothing
temperature
communication infrastructure
Pharma
On top of these are governance/management
law, criminal and regulatory
education
hierarchical structure
health
inter-town transportation
people
things
and maybe most difficult, dealing with needy strangers
All these will be taken up and spread in the context of culture
love acceptance, helping and appreciation
culinary (maybe key to success)
Sex
religious feeling
spiritual feeling not explicitly part of the religious
meaning
art
quiet time
garden aesthetics
intersecting life cycles, children with parents
teenagers with teachers and cohorts
rhythms of work making gardenworld successful
group memory of recent catastrophes.
Notice how much of culture goes beyond governance. The quality of a successful Gardenworld community is going to be easy to sense but hard to describe. The quality of person with person. or persons will be felt by everyone, secure, cautious, laughter, dealing with the trauma of the loss of people and places, the deep place of love in comingled hearts. The tone, feel, sense, and embraceableness of where the community has got to and seems to be going.
We in modern society are defined by our extensive material world and know much less about governance, culture, and civilization.
I recommend (not because they are correct (materialism) but because they are suggestive (civilizational).
Pitrim Sorokin Social and Cultural Dynamis (difference between material and sensual cultures)
Toynbee The Study of History (the difference between states and civilizations)
Cassirer Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (activity of mind)
Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (the dynamics within elites, wonderful language)
Burke A Grammar of Motives ( Literature as a path to understanding society)
Piaget, Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood (Empathy for Children)
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