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Social Planning of Housing*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Naomi Carmon
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Abstract

A planner should be aware of alternative social goals of housing planning. For example: to encourage frequent contacts and manifest neighbourliness, or to plan for maximum privacy; to strive for ethnic integration through ethnically mixed housing or to let people live close to those who resemble themselves, as they usually prefer. The selection of social goals involves value judgements, but opinions differ about the question of whose values should be considered in this decision process.

Once the basic value judgements are made and the social goals selected, the planner looks for ways to realize the goals. This paper surveys sociological studies which define some of the relevant factors and provide guidance concerning social conditions in which physical planning can contribute to the realization of selected goals.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 49 - 59
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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