Publications

Publication details [#49673]

Silverman, Carol J. 1992. Neighbourhood life, communication and the metropolis. Asian Journal of Communication 2 (3) : 92–105.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | obligation | social relationship | urban community

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article argues that the public style of neighbouring enables urbanits to live together peacefully in heterogeneous and dense neighbourhoods, whilst maintaining individual household privacy; this system collapses though when the population becomes too diverse.