sociopetal
Of a place, etc.: involving the arrangement of a group of people so that each person can see and interact with the others.
Sociopetality is that quality which encourages, fosters and even enforces the development of stable interpersonal relationships such as are found in small, face-to-face groups. The tepee, the igloo, the Zulu kraal are examples of buildings that could be described as highly sociopetal.
Where it comes from
From socio- (prefix meaning ‘society’) + -petal (suffix meaning ‘travelling towards’), coined by the English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) in 1957: see the quotation.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sociopetal (CC BY-SA 4.0).