The challenge of creating a sense of community and symbolic expressions of inner satisfactions in the city plan

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the abstract and stated challenges of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1960 and 2025, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 42 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• A Research Design to Build Effective Partnerships between City Planners, Developers, Government and Urban Neighbourhood Communities (2006) · The Journal of Community Informatics · cited 19× · doi

  The paper argues that in order to gain a better understanding of the continued purpose and relevance of urban neighbourhood communities in metropolitan areas and their changing role within a network society, the scope and structure of the communicative ecologies and social networks created and maintained by residents in urban residential real estate needs to be investigated empirically to inform city design and planning.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: urban argues order gain better understanding continued purpose relevance neighbourhood communities metropolitan areas changing role
• The Model Town of Pullman: Town Planning and Social Control in the Gilded Age (1967) · Journal of the American Institute of Planners · cited 1× · doi

  The paper identifies the challenge of balancing aesthetic and functional design in urban planning. The study highlights the challenge of creating a sense of community and social cohesion in planned industrial suburbs. The paper implies that a major challenge is the tension between the interests of businesses and corporations, and the needs and well-being of residents.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: paper identifies challenge balancing aesthetic functional design urban
• The City Symbolic (1960) · Journal of the American Institute of Planners · cited 13× · doi

  The paper identifies the challenge of creating a sense of community and symbolic expressions of inner satisfactions in the city plan. The author argues that current design revivals are insufficient and that a new triad of city-making disciplines is needed. The paper implies that city planners face the challenge of prioritizing objectives over techniques and shapes.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: paper identifies challenge creating sense community symbolic expressions
• Beyond the residential neighborhood: A scoping review of research on urban neighborhood networks (2025) · Social Science & Medicine · cited 9× · doi

  • Neighborhoods are embedded within citywide networks that are consequential for health • We synthesize the methods and key findings of neighborhood networks research • Most studies conceptualize neighborhood networks based on residents' daily mobility • Segregation extends beyond residential neighborhoods to their neighborhood networks • Future research is needed to examine other types of ties, exposures and outcomes

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: networks neighborhood neighborhoods embedded within citywide consequential health synthesize conceptualize based residents daily mobility segregation

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