Neighborhoods: Their Place in Urban Life

by Howard W. Hallman

Hallmans in-depth study begins with the basic definition that a neighbourhood is both a physical place and a social community. Neighbourhoods are analysed as: personal arenas (where individuals perform certain classes of action, e.g. shopping); social communities (where individuals work together in groups and take part in some form of collective life); physical places (where certain amenities are, e.g. houses and hospitals which give an area a cohesiveness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803921810
• ISBN13: 9780803921818
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.