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Hawker Centres: A Social Space Approach to Promoting Community Wellbeing
- Source :
- Urban Planning, Healthy Cities: Effective Urban Planning Approaches to a Changing World
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Cogitatio, 2022.
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Abstract
- This article sets out to examine how the use of social spaces, namely hawker centres, has contributed to community wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using an extensive thematic analysis of online conversations, we have identified that the use of social spaces can have a positive influence on individual, relational and social wellbeing. Access to social spaces during stressful events contributes to the feeling of normalcy, supports routines and structured activities, encourages responsible behaviours, facilitates social connectedness, and helps maintain community resilience. We present a new framework for urban social space characterisation containing three dimensions: coaction, copresence, and colocation (the three Cs). Here, coaction is associated with better visibility of community practices, copresence enhances the sense of connectedness, and colocation is concerned with the use of spatial design factors for influencing movement and interactions. The framework is central to our understanding of social space and its impact on wellbeing. Underpinning the three Cs is the notion of the integration of policy, community wellbeing, and various urban agendas. The findings were considered in terms of their relevance for social space development in Singapore.
- Subjects :
- social space
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Wohlbefinden
Epidemie
Sociology & anthropology
epidemic
Stadtentwicklung
well-being
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Gemeinschaft
ddc:710
Landscaping and area planning
Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
Singapore
influence
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
sozialer Raum
Singapur
urban development
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Urban Studies
Soziologie, Anthropologie
community
ddc:301
coaction
colocation
community wellbeing
copresence
hawker centres
Covid-19
pandemic
Einfluss
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21837635
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Urban Planning
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b3cbe39441c6abe9324e1224d1771e8f