Examining the social porosity of environmental features on neighborhood sociability and attachment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hipp, John R ^a   Corcoran, Jonathan ^b   Wickes, Rebecca ^b   Li, Tiebei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENT; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; NATIONAL PARK; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEIGHBORHOOD ATTACHMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIABILITY; RIVER; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL POROSITY;

AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84897478215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084544     Document Type: Article

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