This is part of a series of posts by Dalhousie students in the Community Design course, 'Reading the City,' where students explore the local urban environment to interpret what the city means, and how it comes to take shape.  This week's post is by Andrew Hooke, Caroline King, Meaghan Maund and Paloma Pontarini. HALIFAX - Defining a community goes beyond the creation of a neat little sentence that would look right at home somewhere deep in the Oxford English Dictionary; defining a community is about communicating to people what they already know and experience. Each of us, whether we realize it or not, participates in some form of community. Large or small, obvious or not, there are communities of all shapes and forms around us, which also inform the shape, form and design of our cities. Instead of trying to condense this diverse reality to fit one loose generalization, we chose to take on the task of trying to highlight all the different layers of communities that compound to create the broader experience that we call ‘community’. To represent this experience we created a series of ‘dolls’ that each represent a type of community that we identified as being an element of the overall community experience.