| OCR Text |
Show - 7 - references will be made to older some sources to to give perspective both the recent literature and the present study. In maintaining neighborhoods, one a balanced perspective of literature regarding needs to be mindful of each writers area of concerno Gist and Halbert have distinguished the views of neighborhoods which tend to be taken by students with several different From an ecological standpoint it [neighborhood] areas of concern. refers to an fairly boundaries, occupied by individuals as a strictly or families living in close physical prOXimity, sociological concept it refers to the nature of the relationships between individuals or families whose contiguous residence has brought them into contact with each other. From a social-psycho logical point of view the emphasis would be upon the attitudes of neighbors toward each other and of the emotional intensity of the interaction. The cultural approach' would be concerned mainly with the folkways, customs, or other social 'practices that'might distinguish a particular locality.l area with well-defined ' The literature reviewed here "sociological concept" of was written. by stuents who mostly have neighborhoods. City Neighborhoods The Differentiation of There have been two'recent studies of interest The first to be considered is that test was areas made of zones that cities have and Eas:h city was INoel Y. Crowell, Po parts of divided into four concentric Gist and Lo Ao 1948), p. 284. subject. in which a ntural population districts. tracts of ten cities having and located in various 500,000, this of concentric circles which radiate outwardly from the cities' central business census on reported by Stuart Brody Burgess' hypotheSis that usually fall in The a populations between 200,000 the zones country, were radiating used. from its Halbert, Urban Society (New York: Thomas |
