@article{ref1,
title="The psychological sense of community in the neighborhood",
journal="Journal of the American Planning Association",
year="1995",
author="Nasar, Jack Leon and Julian, David A.",
volume="61",
number="2",
pages="178-184",
abstract="Many urban problems are blamed on a declining sense of community. To assess such claims and to learn how policies affect sense of community, we need a reliable and valid measure for the construct. This paper describes the development and testing of an 11-item Likert scale of the sense of neighborhood community, using responses from 54 residents in three suburbs in Columbus, Ohio. One test of the scale with 100 residents in single-use and mixed-use areas near one another found significantly more sense of community in the mixed-use neighborhood. More sense of community emerged among married persons and couples with children as compared to singles and childless couples. A test with 32 renters in neighboring apartment buildings, one with an outdoor courtyard and the other with an interior double-loaded corridor, found significantly more sense of community in the courtyard building. Scores agreed with two other measures associated with community: number of neighbors known by name, and number of friends in the buildings. We recommend further testing in other contexts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0194-4363",
doi="10.1080/01944369508975631",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944369508975631"
}