My intent in this chapter is to deepen the readers’ insight into building local capabilities for the purposes of advancing the theory behind the good agency and the community it serves. Within this chapter, I amplify the theory of action involving quality of environment, quality of infrastructure, standard of living, quality of day, and quality of life. From the pocket park in which we find John enjoying the day’s sunshine to the pristine qualities of the urban ecology, we find that capabilities unfold on multiple levels that produce a feeling of safety, security, personal development, and collective advancement. These add up to the construct of well-being in which physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic health converge within individuals and their households so they feel better and better situated. This phenomenology of better means that individuals have more energy at their disposal to invest in themselves, their households, group life, and ultimately the community. Such investments of energy are the building blocks of the community aesthetic. In this chapter, John’s education in the social model of enterprise competes with what he knows as a business owner. The chapter tells us a lot about the construct of capabilities—they are internal and external resources that people can use to build civil society and, as a result, construct their own lives of meaning and purpose. Ultimately, the chapter offers a composite of environmental design—an intentional effort to steward ecologies at human scale.