Neighborhoods

Download or read book Neighborhoods written by Howard W. Hallman and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hallman's 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 as a whole); political communities (of varying degrees of intensity); and as little economies (where people buy houses, rent houses, employ each other etc).