Sonya Glavac - "Neighborliness & Sense of Community in Metro Phoenix: Public Vs Private Neighborhoods" (PL)

1. Neighborliness and Sense of Community in Metropolitan Phoenix: Public Versus Private Neighborhoods
2. Suburbanization & Sprawl
3. These patterns of urban development have been further complicated by
4. These patterns of urban development have been further complicated by
5. Literature
6. Research has endeavored to discover
7. Social interaction may be inhibited by:
8. What is a Community / Neighborhood?
9. Physical Community
10. Planned Communities - Neighborhoods
11. Assumption: Neighborliness is Dependent Upon
12. Objectives and Research Questions
13. Why Glendale? Glendale “requires new subdivisions to have an HOA to maintain common areas, such as retention basins, landscape setbacks and playground equipment” (James May, Glendale Planning Department) Indicative of the growth in the
14. Pairs of neighborhoods were chosen by the following criteria
15. Table: Neighborhood Characteristics for Neighborhood Pairs
16. Survey Instrument
17. Neighboring Behaviors
18. Marbrisa Ranch
19. Neighborliness Behavior
20. Sense of Community
21. Satisfaction with Neighborhood Characteristics
22. Level of Satisfaction
23. Demographic Profile
24. 96.25% full-time residents Year move 1942-2005, mean - 1996, median – 1999
25. Most Important Reason for Moving to this Community
26. Question 1: Is there a difference in neighborliness between HOA and organic neighborhoods?
27. Neighborliness
28. LISREL Analysis
29. Neighborliness Results using LISREL
30. 2 Group Model
31. Model 3
32. Best-fit Model
33. Question 2: Do respondents in organic neighborhoods have more reciprocal social ties than respondents in neighborhoods with HOAs?
34. Data & Methodology
35. Example of Sociogram of HOA neighborhood vs organic neighborhood
36. When the strength of the social ties between the two neighborhoods are compared, a significant difference can be seen
37. Question 3: Is there a difference in sense of community between HOA and organic neighborhoods?
38. Sense Of Community
39. Sense of Community
40. Question 4: Is there a difference in the level of satisfaction with neighborhood features (social, economic, and physical) between residents in living in HOA neighborhoods and organic neighborhoods?
41. Overall Rating of Neighborhood as a Place to Live
42. Ratings of Neighborhood as a Place to Live*
43. Level of Satisfaction with the Neighborhood
44. Physical Features
45. Physical Features
46. Social Features
47. Social Features
48. Economic Features
49. Social Features
50. Economic Features
51. Conclusion
52. Importance of this study and future research
53. Future Research