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SENSINGNEIGHBORHOODS
How can future technology promote stronger relationships between neighbors?
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common...
“John Dewey
Neighborhoodand
Community
Before 1950s suburban flight
Neighborhood Community
After suburban flight
Neighborhood communities are going to be more important in the future
True-value pricing and zero-waste production mean that people must use and consume resources with those physically around them.World Business Council for Sustainable Development
By 2050, 70% of people will live in cities. Social conflicts will be more frequent and creative consensus at the neighborhood level will be more valuable.World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Increased urban concentration and mixed-use developments will make people less likely to regularly travel outside their neighborhoods.Urban Activist and Author Jane Jacobs
Neighborhoodand
Community
Future Reintegration
Neighborhood Survey 40 respondents
One-on-one Interviews8 inverviews
Mapping Exercise4 mapping exercises
Case Studies12 case studies
Literature Review19 academic articles
Most memorable experiences are when neighbors help out or socialize
with other neighbors.
40 survey respondents
0
5
10
15
20%
Helping/Being Helped
Socializing with neighbors
Most memorable experiences are when neighbors help out or socialize
with other neighbors.
“There was a neighborhood Christmas Party down the block and about 75 people attended.”
FriendshipPittsburgh, PA
Respondent #15 Respondent #13 Respondent #29
“Friends shoveled my handicapped ass out without asking them... :-)”
Southwest Garden NeighborhoodSt. Louis, MO
“Walking with neighbors in a blizzard to go have food/drinks at the Royale.”
Southwest Garden NeighborhoodSt. Louis, MO
Average neighbors want to be a part of neighborhood communities,
BUT they do not actively seek out opportunities to build neighor-to-neighbor relationships.
INSIGHT #1
...What [neighbors] must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge—a common understanding...
John Dewey
Pioneers are those neighbors who communicate the aims, beliefs, aspirations, and knowledge of a neighborhood.
Pioneers are themselves sensors taking in information about the neighborhood, filtering it, and communicating it to their neighbors.
INSIGHT #2
Braddock, PA MayorJohn Fetterman
eNewsletters and blogs
Nextdoor.com social network
Facebook groups and Twitter accounts.
How might networks of sensors support pioneers as they build community?
How might networks of sensors enable average neighbors to become
pioneers?
Key Insights
1. Reintegrating the neighborhood and the community will be important for achieving a sustainable future.
2. Average people want to be part of a neighborhood community but do not put e�ort into building communities centered in their neighborhoods.
3. Pioneer neighbors are essential for creating and maintaining neighborhood communities.
4. Sensors can play an important role in helping pioneers create community and can perhaps fill-in if there are no pioneer neighbors in the neighborhood.
...The communication which ensures participation in a common understanding is one which secures similar emotional and intellectual dispositions—like ways of responding to expectations and requirements. ” John Dewey
