Diagnosing the sense of community: case study of São Lourenço housing development

Two other methods were also adopted: observation in loco and mapping neighbourhood relations. The study overlaps the mapped data as a multidimensional analysis to compare the variables. The results reveal spatial organisation guidelines to develop a sense of community and shows evidence of areas where there is a movement of people and social interactions.

They also point out socioeconomic and behavioral aspects associated with constructing a sense of community, such as a greater number of residents, the satisfaction of living in the area and the expectation of remaining in the neighbourhood. This research contributes to synthesising existing tools, empirical studies in a case study, discussing spatial organisation of social housing developments and measuring factors considered subjective of the built environment linked to the quality of life.