Abstract
In our "urbanized" society we have many good reasons to doubt the existence of substantive local community. In this paper I tried to show that it does exist and that it is to be observed in the empirical-sociological way as four forms of cooperative activities or consciousness of inhabitants.
The first of them is the "friendly atmosphere" which should be empirically observed in many, in most cases trivial, behaviors of neighbors toward each other, for example to greet each other on the street, to keep clean the public spaces and so on. It is a trivial, but an important basis for the further development of local community.
Secondly inhabitants often organize various types of non-profit "activities", for example festivals, volunteer-based social works.
Thirdly we see sometimes local communities confronted with the difficult problem of "coordinating the private rights" and of "building a consensus" among the inhabitants. In these cases they must for example behave together for or against a project of local government or private enterprise, or change or keep the rule of city planning for their own area although there are among them some people who will be disadvantaged by the decision or "consensus" of the inhabitants as a whole.
Lastly there are some advanced local communities which make an integrated planning about their own local area. It will rationalize and therefore make easier the attempt to "coordinate the private rights".
