Neighborhood location and its association with place attachment and residential satisfaction

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the association of neighborhood location with place attachment and residential satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach First, the authors reviewed the literature on place attachment and residential satisfaction, and then generated a questionnaire based on the scales from the literature. The authors surveyed 135 respondents in two neighborhoods of Ankara, a metropolitan city in Turkey: one in the city center, the other in a suburb. To analyze the data, first, factor analysis, and later, multivariate analysis of variance and correlation tests were conducted. Findings The results indicated that place attachment and residential satisfaction were positively correlated, in congruence with the related literature; however, neighborhood location appeared to be associated only with residential satisfaction. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed with respect to the recent issues on housing. Originality/value The effects of neighborhood location on place attachment and residential satisfaction (by comparing two different residential areas of the city) have not been adequately examined in earlier studies. The study results provide an understanding of the effectiveness of residential location on improving place attachment and residential satisfaction and contribute to the existing literature. Although the study findings may not be generalized to other locations in Turkey, this study contributed to the previous studies on place attachment and residential satisfaction by providing data from Turkish residents, which is less often examined.

A grounded theory approach to assess indoor soundscape in historic religious spaces of Anatolian culture: A case study on Hacı Bayram Mosque

“…39 In urban environments, designers/planners are using appearance and imageability of physical elements to form place meanings and satisfaction. 40,41 Findings indicate that interpretation of the soundscape helps forming the place identity, similar to how physical elements can form the place identity of an urban environment. One of the fundamental aspects of the soundscape concept is the meanings associated with the sound.…”

Urban housing: a study on housing environment, residents’ satisfaction and happiness

“…The responses of 293 residents were statistically analyzed performing factor analysis to reduce several individual items into a fewer number of dimensions of housing environment influencing residents' satisfaction and happiness (Savasdisara et al, 1989;Ibem and Alagbe, 2015;Huang and Du, 2015;Turkoglu et al, 2019;Grange and Yau, 2020;Aksel and Imamoglu, 2020;Cho, 2020). Partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) path modeling was applied to analyze the hypothesized relationships of constructs to theoretically and empirically confirm them through Smart-PLS-2.0 (Hair et al, 2014).…”

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Editorial

“…All authors of these issues are nonwestern. There were nine articles on urban issues (Wiedman and Wang, 2020; Zohou et al , 2020; El-Kholei, 2020a; İnce et al , 2020; Ferah, 2020; El-Kholei, 2020b; Ammar et al , 2020; Lingyan and Ming, 2020); two articles on academic research in architecture (Salama and Hurol, 2020; Hurol, 2020), three articles on memory/place/tectonic affects (Tang et al , 2020; Ghelichkhani, 2020; Aksel and Imamoglu, 2020), two articles on the issues of plurality and polyphonic approaches (Salama and Hurol, 2020; El-Ashmouni and Salama, 2020); one article on decolonialism and cosmopolitanism (El-Ashmouni and Salama, 2020); one article on parametric design (Tünger and Taşlı Pektaş, 2020); two articles on photovoltaic facilities (Krstic-Furundzic et al , 2020; Ibrahim, 2020); one article on transformation and social change (Al-Betawi et al , 2020); two articles on sustainability and cittaslow (İnce et al , 2020; Babatunde, 2020); two articles on architectural education (Rauf, 2020; Pasha, 2020); one article on conservation of built-heritage (Thirumaran et al , 2020); one article on traditional villages (Huang and Yuanyuan, 2020); one article on post-war reconstruction (Kudumovic, 2020) and one article on post-pandemic environment (Ghada and Gharib, 2020). Some articles combined double keywords.…”