Creating sense of community: The role of public space

Francis, Jacinta; Giles-Corti, Billie; Wood, Lisa; Knuiman, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.07.002

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“…The presence of shops and public open spaces in residential environments has a positive effect on reinforcing a sense of community, independently of the frequency of use by respondents (Francis et al 2012). The proximity of, and access to, such local facilities has a potential impact on the use that elderly residents make of their neighborhood, as it links to their overall emotional, social and physical well-being; reliance on motorized vehicles to access local services reduces their capacity to interact within the neighborhood.…”

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“…Diversity is crucial as it offers accidental and unlimited scenarios for life. Research reviewed in this area relates our likelihood to establish and engage in social relationships, feel a sense of community and use local facilities to well-being (Francis et al 2012) and focuses on the physical features in which such events take place. Density and spatial configuration in relation to movement, access and distribution of services are two of these features frequently cited.…”

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“…concluded that different design theories are connected to specific preconditions for sociability. Housing estates designed on the basis of social theories aimed at creating strong communities expressed through modernist urban layouts have failed in their goal by isolating people from each other, rather than facilitating social relationships (Milun 2007).The presence of shops and public open spaces in residential environments has a positive effect on reinforcing a sense of community, independently of the frequency of use by respondents (Francis et al 2012). The proximity of, and access to, such local facilities has a potential impact on the use that elderly residents make of their neighborhood, as it links to their overall emotional, social and physical well-being; reliance on motorized vehicles to access local services reduces their capacity to interact within the neighborhood.…”

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This chapter deals with those aspects of the design of cities that have been shown to affect quality of life. Whilst direct causal relationships between physical space and well-being are often difficult to establish, physical space certainly does play a significant part in shaping the way we engage with it, informing the individual and collective sense of attachment to our own environment; this will become increasingly important, with the urbanization process predicted to grow, a significant part of which in conditions of informality. The aim of this chapter is to gather relevant and recent research that highlights advances in the study of the reciprocal effect between urban form and urban life and use this to compile an agenda for future thinking, research and practice in the field of socially sustainable urban design.The thrust of this agenda is centered on the concept of control. Since urbanization is an ongoing phenomenon and life in cities is now the norm for the vast majority of people, the traditional role of design needs to be reconsidered to give way to more collaborative and flexible forms of conceptualization, creation, occupation and management of space. This is important in order to relieve pressure on land and institutions, and instill an overall proactive and reciprocal attitude towards space itself, and space as a form of collective and social life.The chapter will highlight that urban quality of life rests on four core themes of: material well-being; emotional and personal development; interpersonal relationships; and physical well-being. These themes provide an organizational framework for exploration of how they are manifest at the metropolitan, neighbourhood and pedestrian levels of scale. KeywordsCities, urban form, control, urban design, quality of life, metropolitan scale, neighbourhood scale, pedestrian scale. Email author OutlineFrom an overview on recent trends in urbanization, we will introduce the notion of control as a key to read the following text and in particular we will: 1. contextualize the concept of control in relation to the fields of both quality of life (QoL) and urban form. In fact, the literature in both domains shows that there is a mutually reciprocal relationship between aspects of quality of life and urban spatial structure; 2. review established and recent research on the relationships between QoL and urban form, structured around metropolitan, neighborhood and pedestrian scales, which illustrates the centrality of control in shaping our cities and allowing quality of life to be fulfilled within them; 3. propose a conceptual framework for socio-spatial urban design, which is sensitive to the relative importance of predictive/structural and loose/flexible urban elements in the production and management of urban space, and their critical role in affording their users a sense of control; 4. suggest the need for a reconceptualization of city form away from an assemblage of material and spatial elements towards a more integrated sense of a city as a mutually d...

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“…Tylko niespełna jedna czwarta badanych (23 %) wychodzi z założenia, że większości ludzi można ufać, blisko trzy czwarte zaś (74 %) wyznaje zasadę zachowywania daleko idącej ostrożności w stosunkach z innymi [2]. Zasada ta powoduje nieufność wobec wartości i instytucji życia publicznego oraz wszelkich działaniań, które zwiększają izolacyjność w społeczeństwie kosztem transparentności są postrzegane negatywnie [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

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Hierarchy of Values of Students in Selected Countries of Middle-Eastern Europe in the Context of the Public Trust

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Social trust is related with phenomenon strictly, in Central Europe from over 20 years of social change getting. I have devoted problems of social trust in international investigative project 2009-2012 taking part concerning perception category social trust including country post-communist particular note and from these countries systems of values of young people. Values are declared present by students in daily life frequently definitely than in functioning social structure at the nature institutional-organizational.Keywords: social trust; post-communist countries; system of value; social change Hierarchia wartości studentów w wybranych krajach Europy środkowo wschodniej w kontekście zaufania społecznego STRESZCZENIEZaufanie społeczne jest ściśle związane ze zjawiskiem, zachodzącej w Europie środkowo-wschodniej od ponad 20 lat zmiany społecznej. W latach 2009-2012 biorąc udział w międzynarodowym projekcie badawczym dotyczącym postrzegania kategorii zaufania społecznego obejmującym kraje postkomunistyczne szczególną uwagę poświęciłem kwestiom zaufania społecznego i systemom wartości młodzieży z tych krajów. Wartości deklarowane przez studentów są zdecydowanie częściej obecne w życiu codziennym niż w funkcjonowaniu struktur społecznych o charakterze instytucjonalno-organizacyjnym.Słowa kluczowe: zaufanie społeczne; kraje postkomunistyczne; system wartości; zmiana społeczna

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“…(Francis, Giles-Corti, Wood & Knuiman, 2012;Putnam, 1995;Macionis, 2012) As a result of the industrial revolution the social fabric of family, community and tradition has been weakened (Francis et al, 2012;Macionis, 2012;). This also affects the extent to which people would like to participate in nonprofit communities.…”

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Creating sense of community: The role of public space

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Urban Design and Quality of Life

Urban Design and Quality of Life

Hierarchy of Values of Students in Selected Countries of Middle-Eastern Europe in the Context of the Public Trust

The social media participation framework : studying the effects of social media on nonprofit communities

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