NEIGHBOURHOOD

Neighbourhood

A neighbourhood or neighborhood is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. "Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition. Neighbourhood is generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighbourhoods, then, are the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur – the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realise common values, socialise youth, and maintain effective social control." The Old ...

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neighbourhood

Noun

  1. Close proximity, particularly in reference to home
    He lives in my neighbourhood.
  2. and, by extension, its inhabitants
    The fire alarmed all the neighbourhood.
  3. a division of a municipality or region, formally or informally divided
  4. The quality or condition of being a neighbour; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
  5. The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point; The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex
  6. The disposition becoming a neighbour; neighbourly kindness or good will.


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