Development of communal areas in residential suburban neighbourhoods

The article looks at the development of community in suburban neighbourhoods. Considering the Walloon region as an example, we suggest that the debate needs to be resituated and developed in order to take into consideration the evolution of the ways in which people relate socially to space, constructed through the ways in which people live their lives at work etc. with as a corollary a loss of significance for the near neighbourhood. In this context, the relationship between environment and attained security has been reflected at the city level more than at the neighbourhood level, in a similar way to that envisaged by environmental science.