Author : Kara N. Youngentob
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Synopsis Is a New Urban Development Model Really Building Greener Communities? by : Kara N. Youngentob
Download or read book Is a New Urban Development Model Really Building Greener Communities? written by Kara N. Youngentob and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: Neo-traditional communities are hypothesized to promote environmentalism among residents, but this claim has not been well researched. In October 2002, I conducted a mail survey of middle-class homeowners in Gainesville, Florida, to determine if there were differences in sense of community and environmental attitudes, behavior, and knowledge among homeowners from three development types (Traditional, Post-war, and Neo-traditional). I also analyzed survey responses from a representative sample of middle-class homeowners in Gainesville, Florida, to explore whether sense of community and New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale scores had a relationship to other measures of environmental attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. The Neo-traditional community had the strongest sense of community between all three development types.