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    1) The concept of the neighborhood was introduced by famous urban planners in the early 20th century as a way to improve living conditions and foster social interaction amid rapid urbanization. 2) Clarence Perry's 1929 "Neighborhood Unit" model outlined specific guidelines for neighborhoods, including schools and shops within walking distance and traffic barriers. 3) Neighborhoods form the basic social and physical building blocks of cities and help preserve community values in an urbanizing world.

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    1) The concept of the neighborhood was introduced by famous urban planners in the early 20th century as a way to improve living conditions and foster social interaction amid rapid urbanization. 2) Clarence Perry's 1929 "Neighborhood Unit" model outlined specific guidelines for neighborhoods, including schools and shops within walking distance and traffic barriers. 3) Neighborhoods form the basic social and physical building blocks of cities and help preserve community values in an urbanizing world.

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    Subject - Housing MIS No.

    111914005

    Assignment No.2 Name - Aishwarya Santosh Kamble

    Question : Explain the Concept of Neighbourhood in detail.

    Answer :

    • Introduction of Neighbourhood Concept by Famous Planners

    The term neighbourhood is used to describe the sub-divisions of urban or rural


    settlements. In simple terms , a neighbourhood is the vicinity in which people live.
    Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction
    among members. Many Planners and Architects described their idea of neighbourhood in
    their work.

    Neighbourhood idea of Clarence Stein and Henry Wright in plan for Radburn and
    Neighbourhood Unit Idea of Clarence Perry were both published in 1929.

    Lewis Mumford presented ‘neighbourhood’ as a ‘fact of nature’, which comes into


    existence whenever a group of people share a place. Since the early ages of humanity, for
    practical, economical, sociological and psychological reasons, people have tended to live close
    together in sections of an area and form communities.

    Arnold Whittick (1974) describes neighbourhood unit as an integrated, and


    planned urban area related to the larger community of which it is a part, and consisting of
    residential districts, a school or schools, shopping facilities, religious buildings, open spaces,
    and perhaps a degree of service industry.

    • Evolution and Conceptualisation of Neighbourhood

    The ‘neighbourhood unit’ evolved in response to the degenerated environmental


    and social conditions fostered because of industrial revolution in the early 1900s.

    a) Clarence Perry’s Model :-

    One of the earliest authors to attempt a definition of the ‘neighbourhood unit’ in


    specific terms was Clarence Arthur Perry (1872-1944), a New York planner. While the origin of
    the concept of the neighbourhood unit may be cited at an early date, it was the publication of
    Clarence A. Perry’s memorandum entitled ‘The Neighbourhood Unit’ in the 1929 ‘Regional
    Plan of New York and Its Environs’, which led to its promotion as a planning tool. Perry’s
    monograph offered in concrete terms a diagrammatic model of the ideal layout for a
    neighbourhood of a specified population size. This model provided specific guidelines for the
    spatial distribution of residences, community services, streets and businesses.

    Perry outlined six basic principles of good neighbourhood


    design as follows :

    1. Major arterials and through traffic routes


    should not pass through residential neighbourhoods.
    Instead these streets should provide boundaries of the
    neighbourhood;

    2. Interior street patterns should be


    designed and constructed through use of cul-de-sacs,
    curved layout and light duty surfacing to encourage a
    quiet, safe and low volume traffic movement and
    preservation of the residential atmosphere;

    3. The population of the neighbourhood


    should be that which is required to support its elementary
    school;
    4. The neighbourhood focal point should be the elementary school centrally located on
    a common or green, along with other institutions that have service areas coincident
    with the neighbourhood boundaries;

    5. The radius of the neighbourhood should be a maximum of one quarter mile thus
    precluding a walk of more than that distance for any elementary school child; and

    6. Shopping districts should be sited at the edge of neighbourhoods preferably at major


    street intersections.

    b) Clarence Stein’s Model


    Clarence Stein placed the elementary school at
    the centre of the neighbourhood unit and within
    ¼ mile radius of all residents. A small shopping
    centre for daily needs is located near the school.
    Most residential streets are suggested as cul-de-
    sac or ‘dead-end’ roads to eliminate through
    traffic, and park space flows through the
    neighbourhood in a manner reminiscent of the
    Radburn Plan. He further expanded the definition
    of neighbourhood centre by connecting the
    neighbourhoods together to create towns. The
    diagram shows the grouping of three
    neighbourhood units served by a high school and
    one or two major commercial centres, the radius
    for walking distance to these facilities being one
    mile.

    • CONCLUSIONS

    Neighbourhoods form the urban tissue of the city both physically and socially.
    The concept of the neighbourhood is well established as a basic unit of planning the cities.
    Further, it is a popular and accepted element of social and physical organization in the minds
    of most people. Hence the neighbourhood has become the symbol and the means to
    preserve the socio-cultural values of an earlier less harried way of life in our increasingly
    complex and fast-moving urban centres. This also causes enhancement in the social-cultural
    bonds that would result as a direct outcome of improvement in physical conditions of a
    neighbourhood.

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