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Setiawan, W and Sutrisna, M (2010) Investigating the potential of built environment in promoting social cohesion within an urban environment. In: Egbu, C (Ed.), Proceedings 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September 2010, Leeds, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 1, 593–602.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: cognitive mapping; social cohesion; urban design; planning
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9552390-4-5
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2010-0593-0602_Setiawan_and_Sutrisna.pdf
- Abstract:
Economic crisis, particularly in the mid 1990s have been directly and indirectly linked to the occurrence of social friction and conflicts between different social and/or ethnic groups within an urban context. These conflicts and frictions have been considered the leading factors towards physical conflict in many urban environments around the world. In some countries, the diversity of social culture groups has been evidently taken into account as a significant issue that influences their urban design and planning, while in some others there is a lack of supporting evidence on this. There appear to be questions more than the answer on the actual role and impact of the built environment on social cohesion of the communities to either promote social harmony or prevent further social conflicts. In light of this, a research has been set to investigate the most appropriate ways for the built environment, particularly in urban design and planning premises, to promote social cohesion in the communities. As an integral part of the investigation, this paper reports the findings from a literature study. Cognitive mapping analysis was used to describe the centrality of the related aspects and the connectivity of the issues. The findings indicated that there are potential of built environment to support such cohesion through urban planning and design mainly by considering particular issues such as socio cultural, economics, housing and settlements, city structure and homogeneity. The outcomes of this stage are expected to support further stages of this study by identify and classifying various aspects of built environment into categories as well as establishing their potential relationship in promoting social cohesion in the communities.