Building social capital | Joseph Cabrera | TEDxScranton

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Joseph Cabrera shows us how changing some small archiectural attributes in our neighborhoods can actually make a big impact in the way of our kindness, gratuity, and faith in each other.

oseph Cabrera is an assistant professor of sociology in the Social Science Department at the University of La Verne. He has published numerous articles in urban studies journals, such as Housing Policy Debate, Environment and Behavior, and Journal of Planning Education and Research. His research focuses on how urban planning and architectural design affects social capital (i.e., social networks, trust, and reciprocity) in communities. His previous work has examined differences in social capital between new urbanist and standard suburban communities. Currently he is studying a new urbanist inspired revitalization project in South Scranton, PA, examining the formation of social capital in ethnically and racially diverse neighborhoods.

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