How Do Housing Types Affect Neighborhood Relationships? : Analysis of a four-city survey in Japan

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Is neighborhood weakened by urbanism in contemporary Japan? To answer this question, I have conducted a four-city survey (Musashino, Nishinomiya, Hachioji, and Matsuyama) (1999) in Japan. This survey uses a new method of sampling that measures the effects of both urbanism and housing type (Type I: Single-unit houses in traditional residential areas, Type II: Single-unit houses in suburban areas, Type III: Owned condominiums, Type IV: Public apartments) on personal community networks. This paper provides diverse analyses of how housing types are related to neighborhood networks. The urbanism hypothesis and popular understandings would lead us to believe that neighborhood relationships are weakened by urbanism. However, according to my survey findings, it is housing type, and not city size, that is most important when explaining the relationship between neighborhood contact and urbanism. Neighborhood relationships are strongly related to housing type. Therefore, when attempting to answer the question we need a more careful analysis which takes into consideration the effect of housing type.
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