A comparison of neighbourhood liveability as perceived by two groups of residents: Tehran, Iran and Tartu, Estonia

Norouzian-Maleki, Saeid; Bell, Simon; Hosseini, Seyed Bagher; Faizi, Mohsen; Saleh-Sedghpour, Bahram

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2018.08.004

Cited by 26 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 71 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Satisfaction with the built environment had a weak to moderate correlation with awareness, attitude, and behavior, yet no significant relationship was found as a result of the linear regression tests. Although it was reported in the literature to have an impact on sustainability behavior [46,80,81], this was not the case for the Turkey context. The comments above made in relation to place attachment might therefore be echoed here.…”

Section: Satisfaction With Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The success of urban sustainability is very much dependent on a number of human factors. Therefore, it becomes even more important to explore how people understand urban sustainability and how they behave accordingly. Based on a formerly developed conceptual framework and on specified influencing factors, this study aimed to evaluate and elucidate the urban sustainability understanding and behavior of individuals in the city of Istanbul. This was assessed through the use of a quantitative questionnaire survey of 535 respondents. Therein, socio-psychological processes of sustainability understanding (i.e., determinants of awareness, perception, and attitude) and sustainability behaviors along with personality traits and influential factors were assessed and analyzed through the use of bivariate and multivariate methods (i.e., correlation tests, ANOVA, t-tests, and multiple linear regression). The results showed that sustainability awareness was more strongly correlated with attitude than perception, whereas behavior was found to be strongly correlated with both awareness and attitude and was (significantly) predicted by all determinants. The associations/influences of personality traits with determinants were found to be mostly insignificant. Conversely, for behavior, they were significant. The most influential factors found (in hierarchical ordering) were awareness of consequences, trust in society, social appraisement, world-mindedness, willingness to pay, trust in science and technology, ascription of responsibility, age and gender.

show abstract

Section: Satisfaction With Built Environmentmentioning

confidence: 94%

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The first factor comprises the physical characteristics of buildings, including the shape, height, and width of buildings or streets; the other type comprises environmental factors. According to existing research, the height-width ratio (the ratio of the building's height to its frontage width) influences people's visual preference (Norouzian-Maleki et al 2018). However, the result of the mentioned research only proves that physical characteristics and environmental characteristics influence people's preference for the environment.…”

Section: Research Basismentioning

confidence: 98%

A study of demographic difference in external visual preference evaluation of Chinese detached house

Zhen

Shao

et al. 2020

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the background of rapid urban development in China, several detached houses have been built. The style, local surroundings, and other physical characteristics of these houses are constantly changing, which provides ample samples for the study of the visual preference evaluation of Chinese detached houses. With the detached houses in Jiangsu province, China, as the research object, the architectural style, height-width ratio, window-wall ratio, and local surroundings were set as the physical characteristics of detached houses. A photo stimulation experiment was conducted with different types of participants, the findings of which were then collected and analyzed. The study indicates that architectural style, height-width ratio, window-wall ratio, and local surroundings are the main factors that influence people's visual preference evaluation of detached houses; people of different categories produce different visual preference evaluations of detached houses. This study offers a valuable reference for the design of Chinese detached houses.

show abstract

“…(8) Environmental determinants, as the last factor group, consists of a wide range of sub-factors. For instance, urban greenery is found to be positively correlated with pro-environmental awareness and perceptions, consequently resulting in sustainable behaviour [115]. On the other hand, the built environment as a function of buildings, streets and open spaces can impact on sustainability perception and the behaviour of individuals [116,117].…”

Section: Influential External Factors (Situational/contextual)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social, environmental, and economic problems related to urban living have surpassed the agenda of policy and decision-makers as well as general public opinion in recent decades. To address urban and environmental issues, it is pivotal to examine how people think, feel, judge, and act with respect to sustainability. While some prominent theories exist and various attempts have been made to propose synthesized models, there are still gaps and discrepancies within the literature of environmental psychological theories. As such, the aim of this paper is to critically review the literature by focusing on a few of the most influential environmental, prosocial, and psychological behaviour theories, which include Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), Norm Activation Theory (NAT), Value-Belief-Norm Theory (VBN), and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP). The Scopus database has been searched systematically for the relevant studies. This paper concludes that an integrative approach to urban sustainability understanding and behaviour is needed. A framework is presented that consists of three layers of clustered components: (1) internal socio-psychological determinants, (2) personality traits, and (3) influencing external factors such as social, cultural, economic, and institutional factors. The model proposed in the study provides opportunities to further develop theoretical approaches and establish new measures of an Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour assessment.

show abstract

A comparison of neighbourhood liveability as perceived by two groups of residents: Tehran, Iran and Tartu, Estonia

Cited by 26 publications

References 71 publications

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

A study of demographic difference in external visual preference evaluation of Chinese detached house

Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About