The built environment shapes neighborhood residents' sense of community, but perception is a tricky question
Sarah French and Lisa Wood and Sarah Alexandra Foster and Billie Giles-Corti and Lawrence Frank and Vincent Learnihan, "Sense of Community and Its Ass...
August 12, 2024
Tall buildings and place-making: a conceptual model
Kheir Al-kodmany, "Placemaking with tall buildings," Urban Design International 16 (2011): 4 Abstract (comprehensive): Despite their profound impac...
August 12, 2024
‘Suburban infill’: where can second units have a positive impact?
Deirdre Pfeiffer, "Retrofitting suburbia through second units: lessons from the Phoenix region," Journal of Urbanism 8 (2015): 3 Some take-aways: T...
August 12, 2024
Sprawl vs. compact development: reframing the debate in light of fraught definitions
Reid Ewing & Shima Hamidi, "Compactness versus Sprawl: A Review of Recent Evidence from the United States," Journal of Planning Literature 30 (2015): ...
August 12, 2024
Small businesses and entrepreneurial businesses are both valuable for communities, but in different ways and at different times
Margaret Fitzgerald & Glenn Muske, "Family businesses and community development: the role of small business owners and entrepreneurs," Journal of Comm...
August 12, 2024
Slow and steady: Jane Jacobs and gradual neighborhood development
Katherine King, "Jane Jacobs and ‘The Need for Aged Buildings’: Neighbourhood Historical Development Pace and Community Social Relations," Urban Studi...
August 12, 2024
Shopping streets potentiate cultural change in Stuttgart, Germany
Petra Kuppinger, "A Neighborhood Shopping Street and the Making of Urban Cultures and Economies in Germany," City & Community 13 (2014): 2 Take-awa...
August 12, 2024
Social-mix policies and their effects/affects within social space: problems from Amsterdam
Philip Lawton, "Understanding Urban Practitioners' Perspectives on Social-MixPolicies in Amsterdam: The Importance of Design and Social Space," Journa...
August 12, 2024
Social cohesion and built characteristics in high-disadvantage neighborhoods
Eileen Bjornstrom and Margaret Ralston, "Neighborhood Built Environment, Perceived Danger, and Perceived Social Cohesion," Environment and Behavior 46...
August 12, 2024
Security over community? The psychosocial implications of dwelling type
Heather Rollwagen, "The Relationship Between Dwelling Type and Fear of Crime," Environment and Behavior 48 (2016): 2 The take-away: The authors con...
August 12, 2024