What community?

Several approaches to the study of communities have been adopted. Each of these approaches emphasizes a particular aspect of community life. The community as a territorial unit, people think of their community as the physical place of geographic environment in which they live. This place has both personal and shared meanings for the inhabitants. This sense of sharing a common are that may have specific name and a unique identity is the territorial aspect of the community.Many communities are located in certain geographical areas because the characteristic of that environment has attracted people. For instance, natural recourses such as timber, and coal mined may lead to the development of a community, for the people may want to get quickly and easily from their place of resident to their jobs and shops.