NEIGHBOURING IN AN URBAN AND SUBURBAN CONTEXT

The central question of this article is whether the built environment, urban versus suburban, has any influence on the frequency of contacts with neighbours. The results are presented of a survey about households, which moved from a central city to a new town in The Netherlands. It showed a signific...

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Published in:Netherlands journal of housing and the built environment 1987-01, Vol.2 (3), p.233-245
Main Author: Blauw, Wim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Built environments
Children
Cities
Dwellings
Houses
Men
Neighborhoods
Suburbs
Towns
Working women
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Summary:The central question of this article is whether the built environment, urban versus suburban, has any influence on the frequency of contacts with neighbours. The results are presented of a survey about households, which moved from a central city to a new town in The Netherlands. It showed a significant increase of the frequency of contacts with neighbours. With the help of four models we attempted to explain this change. In a multivariate analysis it is shown, that this increase of contacts with neighbours can be attributed to male sex, having a job, having young children, a socially more homogeneous neighbourhood and the move from apartment dwelling to a terraced house. When specifying for some social categories, it is concluded, that men without young children are more subject to changes of the built environment than women with young children.
ISSN:0920-1580