Does walking in the neighbourhood enhance local sociability? du Toit, Lorinne, Cerin, Ester, Leslie, Evie and Owen, Neville 2007, Does walking in the neighbourhood enhance local sociability?, Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban and regional studies, vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 1677-1695, doi: 10.1080/00420980701426665. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Does walking in the neighbourhood enhance local sociability? Author(s) du Toit, Lorinne Cerin, Ester Leslie, Evie Owen, Neville Journal name Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban and regional studies Volume number 44 Issue number 9 Start page 1677 End page 1695 Publisher Oliver & Boyd Place of publication Edinburgh, Scotland Publication date 2007-08 ISSN 0042-0980 1360-063X Summary The walkability of urban neighbourhoods has emerged as a strong component in policy and design models for active, liveable communities. This paper examines the proposition that more walkable neighbourhoods encourage local social interaction, a sense of community, informal social control and social cohesion; and that the relationship is explained by walking for transport or for recreation. Multilevel analyses of data from an Australian sample showed a modest association between the walkability of a neighbourhood and sense of community only. Walking for transport, but not recreation, mediated this relationship although the effect was small. These results support contentions that 'walkability' is more complex than usually defined and that factors influencing neighbourhood sociability extend beyond issues of urban form. Language eng DOI 10.1080/00420980701426665 Field of Research 111712 Health Promotion Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2007, Oliver & Boyd Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007216 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Health and Social Development Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 16 Jan 2009, 10:11:27 EST Tue, 11 May 2010, 11:41:07 EST Tue, 11 May 2010, 11:42:14 EST Tue, 30 Jul 2013, 13:01:02 EST Wed, 02 Oct 2013, 15:32:38 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 08:31:39 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 14:23:53 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 88 times in TR Web of Science Cited 103 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 815 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:49:37 EST