Topic: Neighbors
Quotes: "Americans go on 60 percent fewer picnics today and families eat dinner together 40 percent less often compared with 1965, he said. They are less likely to meet at clubs or go bowling in groups. Putnam has estimated that every 10-minute increase in commutes makes it 10 percent less likely that people will establish and maintain close social ties."
Vedantam, Shankar. "Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says - Washingtonpost.com." Washingtonpost.com - Nation, World, Technology and Washington Area News and Headlines. 23 Sept. 2006. Web. 08 Sept. 2010.
"The following are the principles of an ideal neighborhood design:
1) the neighborhood has a center and an edge; 2) the optimal size of a neighborhood is a quarter mile from center to edge; 3) the neighborhood has a balanced mix of activities- dwelling, shopping, working, schooling, worshipping, and recreating: 4) the neighborhood structures building sites and traffic on a fine network of interconnecting streets; 5) the neighborhood gives priority to public space and to the appropriate location of civic buildings."
Katz, Peter, Vincent Joseph Scully, and Todd W. Bressi. The New Urbanism: toward an Architecture of Community. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Print.
The New Urbanism: toward an Architecture of Community is a book that I found discussed points that were valid in understanding the core of a neighborhood. In the quote I used I was outlining the definition more so than the opinion of loss of community.
In my current work I am continually confronted with the idea of a dying community or lack of 'neighbor'. Understanding the thoughts of philosophers, sociologists and other humans has proven to be very informational in understanding and having the support and acknowledgment of others that this is a growing problem in America.
video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnxRqGOQvWE
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