TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - The psychological sense of community in the neighborhood
JO  - Journal of the American Planning Association
A1  - Nasar, Jack Leon
A1  - Julian, David A.
SP  - 178
EP  - 184
VL  - 61
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0194-4363
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944369508975631
ID  - ref1
ER  -