What is Neighbourhood?
[[File:Chelsea1217.JPG|thumb|right|337px|The [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]] in [[New York City]]]] A '''neighbourhood''' or '''neighborhood''' is a [[geography|geographic]] [[community]] in a larger [[city]], [[town]] or [[suburb]]. Neighbourhoods are often [[social]] communities because the people that live in them commonly talk with each other. [[Researcher]]s have not agreed on an exact [[definition]]. ==Preindustrial cities== According to [[urban]] [[academia|scholar]] Lewis Mumford, Neighbourhoods have always exist where [[human]]s live. Many of the [[function]]s of the city are usually [[distribution|distributed]] into neighbourhoods.<ref>Mumford, Lewis (1954) The Neighborhood and the Neighborhood Unit. Town Planning Review 24:256–270, p. 258</ref> [[Archaeologist]]s have found [[evidence]] of neighbourhoods in the [[ruin]]s of most of the earliest cities around the [[world]].<ref>For example, Spence, Michael W. (1992) Tlailotlacan, a Zapotec Enclave in Teotihuacan. In Art, Ideology, and the City of Teotihuacan, edited by Janet C. Berlo, pp. 59–88. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC. Stone, Elizabeth C. (1987) Nippur Neighbourhoods. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization vol. 44. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago</ref> [[history|Historical]] [[documents]] give [[information]] about neighbourhood life in many historical [[industry|preindustrial]] or [[Western civilization|nonwestern]] cities.<ref>Some examples: Heng, Chye Kiang (1999) Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats: The Development of Medieval Chinese Cityscapes. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu. Marcus, Abraham (1989) The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press, New York. Smail, Daniel Lord (2000) Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.</ref> Neighbourhoods are usually created by [[social interaction]] between people living near each another. They are local social groups la