Abstract
One of the underlying purposes of community planning is the creation of settings that support the activities of households and institutions. In this context, spatial planning aims at the realization and maintenance of a state of congruence between human behavior and the physical environment. The relationships between individual and institutional activities on the one hand and the environment on the other can be analyzed on different spatial levels and for different time spans. Studies range from the scale of “vertical villages” in high-rise buildings (Wekerle, 1976) to “urban villages” (Gans, 1962), to “global villages” (McLuhan, 1968), and from observations on the use of urban parks and playgrounds measuring time in minutes (Gold, 1972; Hole, 1966) to historical research seeking to uncover developments during the course of centuries (Hohenberg & Lees, 1985).
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Vliet, W.V., Burgers, J. (1987). Communities in Transition. In: Altman, I., Wandersman, A. (eds) Neighborhood and Community Environments. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1962-5_8
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