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2016 Vol.27, Issue 1
Causes and Spatial Characteristics of Neighborhood Relations by Family Life Cycle

생애주기에 따른 이웃관계의 형성요인과 공간적 특성

You Jin Joung*
,
Mack Joong Choi**
정유진 *
,
최막중 **
*정회원(주저자), 서울대학교 환경계획연구소 연구원, 도시계획학박사
**정회원(교신저자), 서울대학교 환경대학원 교수
Corresponding AuthorMack Joong Choi, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea. E-mail: macks@snu.ac.kr
25 February 2016. pp. 1-11
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Abstract

Based on residents’ survey data in Seoul, this study attempts to empirically answer to four research questions regarding neighborhood relations (NR) which are necessary for community building: How important NR is compared to other social relations, what factors establish NR, how large NR’s geographical extent is, and what are major meeting places among neighbors. A series of statistical analyses demonstrates that characteristics of NR vary greatly by family life cycle. In the stage of couple without child, NR has no significant meaning. NR becomes important from the stage of child care, and it is formed through the medium of children, particularly children’s schools in the stage of child of elementary school as well as secondary schools. As the result, NR’s geographical boundary extends beyond residential block or multi-family housing (apartment) estate while cafe and restaurant serve as dominant meeting places in these life cycle stages. On the contrary, after children are married and leave home, casual encounters resulted from spatial proximity become an important cause of NR. Likewise neighbors’ geographical distribution is relatively concentrated within residential block or apartment estate, while community facilities play a role of meeting places as originally planned and designed.

Keywords
Neighborhood Relation
Residential Community
Life Cycle
School
Apartment Estate
키워드
이웃관계
지역공동체
생애주기
학교
아파트 단지
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  • Publisher :The Korean Housing Association
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국주거학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Housing Association
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국주거학회논문집
  • Volume : 27
  • No :1
  • Pages :1-11
  • Received Date : 2015-10-22
  • Revised Date : 2016-01-21
  • Accepted Date : 2016-01-27
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.6107/JKHA.2016.27.1.001
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