Our findings: people who live in proximity to neighborhood amenities are happier, more socially connected, and more inclined to help others compared with people who live in low-amenity areas.
In other words, neighborhoods can cultivate the social goods we typically associate with a healthy civil society.
High-amenity neighborhoods also appear to encourage the virtues on which happiness and a healthy civil society depend.
More than half of city and town residents with ample amenities report talking with neighbors about community happenings compared with about a quarter of those living in sparser places.
People in high-amenity neighborhoods are more likely to say they're happy, living the American dream, and confident in their financial future.
Perhaps it's no surprise that people living in such communities are more inclined to say that they expect to live in the same place in five years than those living in lower-amenity neighborhoods.
If Berger and Neuhaus were right, better neighborhoods-along with other mediating structures-will create a happier, healthier, and more reciprocal civil society.
https://www.city-journal.org/high-amenity-neighborhoods-civil-society
In other words, neighborhoods can cultivate the social goods we typically associate with a healthy civil society.
High-amenity neighborhoods also appear to encourage the virtues on which happiness and a healthy civil society depend.
More than half of city and town residents with ample amenities report talking with neighbors about community happenings compared with about a quarter of those living in sparser places.
People in high-amenity neighborhoods are more likely to say they're happy, living the American dream, and confident in their financial future.
Perhaps it's no surprise that people living in such communities are more inclined to say that they expect to live in the same place in five years than those living in lower-amenity neighborhoods.
If Berger and Neuhaus were right, better neighborhoods-along with other mediating structures-will create a happier, healthier, and more reciprocal civil society.
https://www.city-journal.org/high-amenity-neighborhoods-civil-society
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