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Sense of community and social life in the fishing neighbourhood of Gurunagar, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

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dc.contributor.author Yogalingam, A
dc.contributor.editor Wijesundara, J
dc.contributor.editor Dayaratne, R
dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-08T04:11:23Z
dc.date.available 2024-04-08T04:11:23Z
dc.date.issued 2018-10-05
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/22474
dc.description.abstract Today, urbanities are less involved in local communities which have resulted in a claim that the significance and the role of space and neighbourhood layout in the creation of local communities have been exaggerated. Community research has developed a few indices for evaluating the sense of community and social life, but has not focused on the significance of a sense of community in neighbourhoods. Sense of community and social life are two key concepts related to social cohesion, which have been the subject of wide ranging studies in several disciplines including sociology, psychology and built environment. Social life studies have been mostly conducted in the built environment discipline focusing on city centers or periphery areas; while sense of community studies were mostly the target of sociologists and psychologists focusing on neighbourhoods. As a result, the role of the built environment on the sense of community and social life of neighbourhood is considered as a missing gap in the most of the literatures. As clearly shown by the topic, this paper explores the sense of community and social life of Gurunagar fishing neighbourhood and investigates how particular fishing community plays a vital role in their own territoryin terms of physical, social, economic and environmental aspects and highlights its magnitude in achieving as a successful neighbourhood. Also, this research was conducted through observations, photographic surveys, spatial analysis, interviews and discussions with those who live in the selected case study area. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Sense of community en_US
dc.subject Social life en_US
dc.subject Neighbourhood en_US
dc.title Sense of community and social life in the fishing neighbourhood of Gurunagar, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.year 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 6th International Urban Design Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP- 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.place University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 250-276 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the 6th International Urban Design Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP- 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.email arthy156@gmail.com en_US


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