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The Melbourne Docklands, for example, was largely an initiative pushed by private developers to redevelop the waterfront into a high-end residential and commercial district. Recent theories of urban planning, espoused, for example by Salingaros see the city as an adaptive system that grows according to process similar to those of plants.
Due to community work's applied nature, theory is not always considered necessary or even utilized. Despite this, there are number of theoretical models of community practice that guide the practitioner toward social action. These theoretical models have evolved from proto-models utilized in the Progressive Era to the present day. [4]
Urban sociology is the sociological study of cities and urban life. One of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines, urban sociology studies and examines the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments.
An example of this is the belief in luck as an entity; while a disproportionately strong belief in good luck may lead to undesirable results, such as a huge loss in money from gambling, biological functionalism maintains that the newly created ability of the gambler to condemn luck will allow them to be free of individual blame, thus serving a ...
Supported living also developed along different trend lines in the US, two of which included a broadening of the community living concepts in the new community paradigms of community membership [28] of support and empowerment [29] [30] of conversion from an institutional to a community paradigm [31] of person-centered planning [32] of community regeneration (and neighborhood assets) [33] and ...
The 'complete community' is seen as a way to deal with issues of social isolation, address inefficient land uses and meet the needs of diverse households. [19] [20]A common definition of a complete community is one where people live, work and play, and where the automobile is left at home in favour of walking and public transport.
This is a list of intentional communities. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, or spiritual vision and often follow an alternative lifestyle.
Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighbourhood). Note that only very general articles about concepts in human community organization should be directly filed here. Actual specific communities should be categorized, depending on their specific type, as e.g. populated ...