scholarly journals Building ‘community’ for different stages of life: physical and social infrastructure in master planned communities

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippa Williams ◽  
Barbara Pocock
Keyword(s):  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Planned Communities ◽  
Master Planned Communities

scholarly journals The Lived Experience of Residents in an Emerging Master-Planned Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12158
Author(s):  
Laurie Buys ◽  
Cameron Newton ◽  
Nicole Walker
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Residents ◽  
Planned Communities ◽  
Planned Community ◽  
Master Planned Communities

Master-planned communities around the world are developed and purposefully planned to address housing sustainability and community connectivity; they often have a distinctive look, and appeal to a particular customer base desiring a strong, utopian-esque community. However, the lived experience of new residents joining master-planned communities has not been explored. This paper examines the lived experience of new residents within an emerging Australian master-planned estate, and reports on the first two stages of a longitudinal study focusing on the results of an online forum. This unique study presents real-life findings on a culturally diverse community. The findings reveal how the purposeful development of community identity in the early stages of the MPCommunity has not led to satisfactory levels of social infrastructure or social connectedness for the pioneering residents. The physical and social environment, as interpreted by residents against the developers’ imagined vision and marketing testimonies, has not been entirely satisfactory. Infrastructure issues—such as transport, and access to daily activities such as shopping, work, and school—were points of frustration and dissatisfaction. The findings provide insight into the challenges and opportunities for residents in a developing MPC, and further our understanding of the specific factors that inform us as to how social infrastructure can best encourage and support connection within existing and future MPC developments.

Business Sharing its Progress with Villagers Towards Developing Model Villages

GIS Business ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Swapan Garain
Keyword(s):  
Skill Training ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Corporate Contribution ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Corporate Social

In a developing country like India, village-centric development is very critical for improving Human Development Index of the country. In this direction, corporate contribution assumes significance for rehabilitation and resettlement of project affected people and overall intervention under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative. Since India is a country of villages, CSR has to be more sensitive towards the economic, social and cultural needs of rural society of the country. In this paper, it is proposed to gear all interventions for promoting model villages. Model village presents a credible vehicle for bringing about sustainability of a village community unit. A model village must have three significant components of infrastructure development, livelihood promotion and provision of services. Infrastructure development must cater to creating basic physical as well as social infrastructure like approach road, school building, community centre and social capital. Promotion of livelihood includes skill training, self-employment, employment opportunities and village enterprise development, while provision for services for the villagers includes health care, education, sanitation, recreational and other community services. Model village plan envisages a self-contained village community at the apex of all the pillars of sustainability, namely, livelihood, infrastructure and services. The future of Indian economy and the prospect of industry are going to depend largely on building sustainable and self-maintained smallest self-governing units called model villages.

Master-planned communities in the United States as novel contexts for individual and population-level research

2021 ◽  
pp. 106864
Author(s):  
Kristen Nishimi ◽  
Emma Glickman ◽  
Kathryn Smith ◽  
Eran Ben-Joseph ◽  
Shelley Carson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Population Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Planned Communities ◽  
Master Planned Communities

Business Sharing its Progress with Villagers Towards Developing Model Villages

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Swapan Garain ◽  
Komal
Keyword(s):  
Skill Training ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Corporate Contribution ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Corporate Social

In a developing country like India, village-centric development is very critical for improving Human Development Index of the country. In this direction, corporate contribution assumes significance for rehabilitation and resettlement of project affected people and overall intervention under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative. Since India is a country of villages, CSR has to be more sensitive towards the economic, social and cultural needs of rural society of the country. In this paper, it is proposed to gear all interventions for promoting model villages. Model village presents a credible vehicle for bringing about sustainability of a village community unit. A model village must have three significant components of infrastructure development, livelihood promotion and provision of services. Infrastructure development must cater to creating basic physical as well as social infrastructure like approach road, school building, community centre and social capital. Promotion of livelihood includes skill training, self-employment, employment opportunities and village enterprise development, while provision for services for the villagers includes health care, education, sanitation, recreational and other community services. Model village plan envisages a self-contained village community at the apex of all the pillars of sustainability, namely, livelihood, infrastructure and services. The future of Indian economy and the prospect of industry are going to depend largely on building sustainable and self-maintained smallest self-governing units called model villages.

Emerging role of ICT in the development of knowledge-based master planned communities

2008 ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhishna Bajracharya ◽  
Janelle Allison
Keyword(s):  
Urban Region ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Community Learning Centers ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Planned Communities ◽  
Internet Portals ◽  
Master Planned Communities

With the recent trends towards knowledge-based urban development and networked society, information and communications technologies have increasingly played important roles in the daily lives of people for social interaction, learning, information and recreation. This research is an exploratory study on how information and communications technologies have been adopted in master planned communities of South East Queensland, Australia. It examines the four roles of information and communications technologies in the master planned communities: (1) teleworking; (2) creating a sense of community; (3) promoting integrated office and businesses; and (4) developing learning communities. More recent master planned communities in South East Queensland such as Varsity Lakes, North Lakes and Greater Springfield have integrated information and communications technologies for activities such as community internet portals, local business development, and for use in community learning centers and education facilities. There is a potential to attract knowledge workers in master planned communities through the inclusion of cultural amenities, information and communications technologies and learning infrastructure. It is important that information and communications technologies and learning infrastructure not only benefit the housing estate but also the surrounding region thus putting a foundation for a knowledge-based urban region.

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