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The Formation Of Social Capital And Bridging Ties In New Urbanist And Standard Suburban SubdivisionsCabrera, Joseph F.Social CapitalSocial Capital, Social Cohesion, Urban Sustainability, Community, Sense Of Place, Urban PlanningFRI.AM1This paper examines the network structure of a new urbanist subdivision (NUS) and an adjacent standard suburban subdivision (SSS). The study seeks tounderstand the differences in bridging ties and the diversity of social connections between the two populations. The research on diverse social connections ismotivated by new urbanist principles that suggest NUSs will promote more diverse social interactions than SSSs. The findings suggest that NUS residents havemore bridging ties than SSS residents. Furthermore, they suggest that NUS residents have more diverse social connections than SSS residents. These resultssupport the hypothesis that NUS strategies, such as diverse housing and granny flats, help to promote diverse social interactions. In addition, an examinationof the new urbanist designs incorporated into this NUS indicate that only mixed‐use zoning, specifically the neighborhood center businesses, promote bridgingties.The Geographically‐aware Networks In An Amazon Urban SpaceMoutinho Duque de Pinho, Carolina; Pinho, Carolina M.; medeiros, Líliam C.; Amaral, Silvana; Fonseca, Leila M.; Escada, Maria I.; Monteiro, Antônio M.Poster SessionNetwork Analysis, Spatial Analysis, Brazil, Spatially‐embedded Networks, Urban SpaceSAT.PM3The urban space in Amazon assumes distinct forms from the other Brazilian urban centers because of the distinguishable territorialization that were carried outthere in the 60’s. The dynamic of this urban space depends on the technical and social networks which might change the form, the type and number ofsettlements in this space. Following this context, we are proposing a theoretical and methodological approach to understand the Amazon urban space as anon‐contiguous space that articulates different spatial typologies (rural settlements, villages, cities) in a territory‐network within a municipality. Each node(zonal territory) of this network incorporates the urban praxis (urban way of file) and/or the socio‐spatial fabric in different levels in according to its role inpolitical‐economical regional and national spaces.The study area is São Félix do Xingú municipality, located in the south region of Pará state, which is one of themost dynamic regions of the Amazon, and, therefore, is experiencing an intense territory transformation. In this paper we assess the Territory‐networkhypothesis through the analyses of educational commuting data of 2009 and the road network. Educational commuting is used as a proxy of territory networkin urban space context. Our aim is to test if the spatial position of a municipality settlement in a road network implies different roles in the educationalcommuting network. For this the different types of settlements are the networks nodes and the roads and the commuting flux of students are the networksedges.