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Physical elements such as street wall, neighborhood elements such as connectivity, inter-community elements such as access and perceived welcome, and socio-political elements such as investment and racial discrimination were identified as relevant to main street hospitality. Through field visits to 50 main streets in New Jersey and elsewhere, and a systematic qualitative investigation of main streets in a densely interconnected urban region (Essex County, New Jersey), we observed significant variation in main street hospitality, which generally correlated closely with sociability. We examine this using a typology we term “box-circle-line” to represent the streetscape (the box), the local neighborhood (the circle), and the relationship to the regional network of streets (the line). Hospitality is a result of the integrity and complex contents of the main street and surrounding area. We appropriate the term “hospitality” to describe a main street’s propensity to support a density of such social interactions. Prior work suggests that casual contact in public space, which we call “sociability,” facilitates more sustained social bonds in the community. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of main streets to community social cohesion, a factor important to health.

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