Neighborhood Planning Theory, Guidelines, and Research: Can Area, Population, and Boundary Guide Conceptual Framing? Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Planning scholars and practitioners know that planning projects and research are more likely to achieve significant outcomes when the problem is addressed at the most appropriate level of neighborhood. Selecting the right scale of neighborhood, however, is always challenging. To create conceptual framework for the choice of an appropriate neighborhood unit in future studies and projects, this article attempts to reveal a hierarchy of neighborhood and key elements for different levels of neighborhoods. The area, population, boundary characteristics, and key facilities for four levels of neighborhoodsface-blocks, residential neighborhoods, institutional neighborhoods, and communityare defined through the review of the literature on planning theory, guideline, and research on neighborhoods.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF PLANNING LITERATURE

altmetric score

  • 1

author list (cited authors)

  • Park, Y., & Rogers, G. O.

citation count

  • 56

complete list of authors

  • Park, Yunmi||Rogers, George O

publication date

  • February 2015