/taxonomy/term/339/0 en /culture/we-call-it-home/designing-communities <h2>Building community</h2> <div class="mini-pic-right"> <p><a href="/?q=node/150"></a></p> <p class="caption"><a href="/?q=node/150">Rata Vine Drive, Auckland</a></p> </div> <p>Community has many different meanings. People might live in a particular community, but have little contact with their neighbours, preferring instead to pursue their social life elsewhere. Others in the same street might be best friends and spend hours &#39;chewing the fat&#39; over a back fence. Planners of state housing communities encouraged the second model, in which neighbours would become friends and where locals would look out for one another.</p> communities housing State housing state housing Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 126 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz