2025 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 279-302
Abstract Planning has the power to prevent or reduce many physical social problems associated with urban regeneration By addressing issues such as poor infrastructure lack of public space social inequality planning can also help prevent potential future social problems As a result neighborhoods play a fundamental role in finding solutions to these problems Unfortunately recent rent-oriented urban regeneration practices carried out in Turkey have exacerbated these issues This makes it even more critical to prioritize thoughtful planning in future urban development This study aimed to test the theoretical assumption that different spatial designs produce distinct forms of neighborhood-level relationships through a sense of community in Eskisehir Neighborhood (Turkey) Firstly we analyzed the effect of neighbor relations on the sense of community in residential areas within an urban regeneration project Next we examined a neighborhood located in the same area where the demolition process has not yet begun which still maintains its traditional characteristics According to our findings we concluded that the sense of community has an impact on social interaction community attachment community identity in single-family housing areas whereas neighbor relations in housing estate areas only affect community attachment
