Perceived neighborhood quality in the United States: Measuring outdoor, housing and jurisdictional influences

Greenberg, Michael; Crossney, Kristen B.

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2005.10.005

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“…A multitude of both external (Greenberg and Crossney 2007) and internal factors (Kamphuis et al 2010) influence how a person perceives his/her neighborhood. Exploring the relationship between neighborhood perceptions, co-ethnic concentration, and length of residence is important because the first has been linked with emotional (Weden et al 2008) and physical (Humpel et al 2004) wellbeing.…”

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On the Relationship Between Neighborhood Perception, Length of Residence and Co-Ethnic Concentration

Siordia

Sáenz

2013

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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We investigate how co-ethnic concentration and length of residence are related to neighborhood perception in aged Mexican Americans, and discuss sources of information for measuring social environments. Neighborhood perception scale, length of residence in current home, and all individual-level covariates in a hierarchical linear model are derived from data on community-dwelling older adults. Tract-level measures are obtained from Census data. We find no relationship between co-ethnic concentration and positive neighborhood perception, and find a direct relationship between length of residence and positive neighborhood perception. Until further evidence is found, different sources of information when measuring place should be treated equally.

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On the Relationship Between Neighborhood Perception, Length of Residence and Co-Ethnic Concentration

Siordia

Sáenz

2013

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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“…Recent investigations show that big cities tend to score lower than small towns on three scales: poor neighborhood quality, associated with housing conditions; home and neighborhood satisfaction with fair neighborhood characteristics; and the neighborhood quality rating of older long-term residents satisfied with their neighborhood, and young short-term residents not so satisfied with it. In all these instances, small towns scored better than large cities but a variation in the cities studied seems to suggest that those included were also those with a more generally uniform form of neighborhoods, even across varying incomes, whilst other cities where the polycentric nature of form was more evident did not feature (Greenberg and Crossney 2007).A significant obstacle to beneficial interpersonal relationships in cities is criminality, one of the greatest sources of stress in urbanites. Fear of crime limits our ability to go out (mobility) and interact with others (sociability), two key domains of quality of life.…”

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Urban Design and Quality of Life

Rómice

Thwaites

Porta

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Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

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This chapter deals with those aspects of the design of cities that have been shown to affect quality of life. Whilst direct causal relationships between physical space and well-being are often difficult to establish, physical space certainly does play a significant part in shaping the way we engage with it, informing the individual and collective sense of attachment to our own environment; this will become increasingly important, with the urbanization process predicted to grow, a significant part of which in conditions of informality. The aim of this chapter is to gather relevant and recent research that highlights advances in the study of the reciprocal effect between urban form and urban life and use this to compile an agenda for future thinking, research and practice in the field of socially sustainable urban design.The thrust of this agenda is centered on the concept of control. Since urbanization is an ongoing phenomenon and life in cities is now the norm for the vast majority of people, the traditional role of design needs to be reconsidered to give way to more collaborative and flexible forms of conceptualization, creation, occupation and management of space. This is important in order to relieve pressure on land and institutions, and instill an overall proactive and reciprocal attitude towards space itself, and space as a form of collective and social life.The chapter will highlight that urban quality of life rests on four core themes of: material well-being; emotional and personal development; interpersonal relationships; and physical well-being. These themes provide an organizational framework for exploration of how they are manifest at the metropolitan, neighbourhood and pedestrian levels of scale. KeywordsCities, urban form, control, urban design, quality of life, metropolitan scale, neighbourhood scale, pedestrian scale. Email author OutlineFrom an overview on recent trends in urbanization, we will introduce the notion of control as a key to read the following text and in particular we will: 1. contextualize the concept of control in relation to the fields of both quality of life (QoL) and urban form. In fact, the literature in both domains shows that there is a mutually reciprocal relationship between aspects of quality of life and urban spatial structure; 2. review established and recent research on the relationships between QoL and urban form, structured around metropolitan, neighborhood and pedestrian scales, which illustrates the centrality of control in shaping our cities and allowing quality of life to be fulfilled within them; 3. propose a conceptual framework for socio-spatial urban design, which is sensitive to the relative importance of predictive/structural and loose/flexible urban elements in the production and management of urban space, and their critical role in affording their users a sense of control; 4. suggest the need for a reconceptualization of city form away from an assemblage of material and spatial elements towards a more integrated sense of a city as a mutually d...

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“…Specifically, in analyzing the effects of neighborhood conditions on residents' satisfaction, previous studies have analyzed many variables such as: local jurisdiction effect, crime, physical decay and other activities and land uses (Greenberg, Crossney 2007); noise, green areas, naturalness and openness (Bonaiuto et al 2003;Gidlöf-Gunnarsson, Öhrström 2007;Hur et al 2010;Jong et al 2012); effects of place scale (Bonaiuto et al 2003;Lewicka 2010); perceived neighborhood social cohesion, welfare, friendliness of neighbors, ethnic, racial and economic composition (Lansing, Marans 1969;Cheung, Leung 2011); architectural-planning space, landscaping, housing services, style and condition, children's playgrounds, community halls, organization, car parks, security and disability facilities, neighborhood facilities and environment (Lansing, Marans 1969;Bonaiuto et al 2003;Salleh 2008;Youssoufi, Foltête 2013); communal services such as roads, transport services, sewer system and basic utilities within the housing area (Mohit, Azim 2012); and symbolic factors (e.g. sense of identity and prestige values) (Lansing, Marans 1969) (for further discussion, see also Zehner 1971;Türkoğlu 1997;Ukoha, Beamish 1997;Liu 1999;Westaway 2006;Stronegger et al 2010;Rioux, Werner 2011;Gupta et al 2012;oshio, urakawa 2012).…”

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“…It is widely known that deteriorated housing, low-quality neighborhoods, urban density and high crime rates, for example, can lead to increased social and psychological problems for residents (cf. Greenberg, Crossney 2007;Austin et al 2012;Hipp et al 2012;Honold et al 2012;Kyttä et al 2013). According to Bonaiuto et al (2003: 42), this link is bi-directional, because residential and neighborhood satisfaction "encompasses cognitive, motivational and behavioural aspects, reflected in psychological correlates such as the tendency to give favourable evaluations of their dwelling place, improving it and their reluctance to leave it".…”

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Are You Pleased With Your Neighborhood? A Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping-Based Approach for Measuring Residential Neighborhood Satisfaction in Urban Communities

Ferreira

2016

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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Previous research has indicated that residents' satisfaction with neighborhood conditions helps shape attitudes and has a high impact on residential valuations. This paper reports on research that sought to analyze the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and residents' degree of satisfaction. Based on the construction of a fuzzy cognitive map (FCM), which involved residents from several high-and low-quality neighborhoods in the Central-West region of Portugal, a framework that adds value to the way key determinants of neighborhood satisfaction are identified is proposed. Because FCMs allow the understanding of the cause-and-effect relationships between factors to be improved, this framework shows that for satisfaction with the neighborhood to increase, more attention needs to be paid to positive attitudes toward subjective variables that interfere with residents' satisfaction. The results presented can provide relevant information for the effective and efficient planning and development of residential environments. Strengths and weaknesses of this proposal are also discussed.

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Perceived neighborhood quality in the United States: Measuring outdoor, housing and jurisdictional influences

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

On the Relationship Between Neighborhood Perception, Length of Residence and Co-Ethnic Concentration

On the Relationship Between Neighborhood Perception, Length of Residence and Co-Ethnic Concentration

Urban Design and Quality of Life

Are You Pleased With Your Neighborhood? A Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping-Based Approach for Measuring Residential Neighborhood Satisfaction in Urban Communities

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