GEO 320 Urban Geography Fall 2007
Department of Geography and Meteorology, Valparaiso University
Social Dimensions of Urbanism III: Neighborhods and Community

Community Lost

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
• Bowling Alone (Putnam)
• Decline of Civic Engagement/Community
• Causes of the Decline
  

Community Saved

Can you have too much community?

• Community and the Politics of Difference
• Suburban Neighborhoods: Community Transformed

Neighborhoods
Describing Neighborhoods

• A continuum of neighborhoods
• Neighborhood, Community, and Communality
• Functional Approach