What makes cities livable? Determinants of neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness in different contexts

Mouratidis, Konstantinos; Yiannakou, Athena

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105855

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“…We computed a scale score by averaging across the five items, which yielded a scale with high inter-item reliability ( α = 0.906). Satisfaction with life is a key dimension of subjective well-being, which is known to be associated with neighborhood satisfaction [ 29 , 48 , 49 , 51 ]. Controlling for satisfaction with life allows us to isolate the association between respondents’ reproductive status and neighborhood satisfaction that is independent of their subjective well-being, which may be driven by a range of unmeasured physical health, mental health, and environmental factors.…”

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“…These theories of neighborhood satisfaction have set researchers on a path toward identifying the correlates of neighborhood satisfaction in three broad categories: objective features, demographic characteristics, and subjective perceptions [ 29 ]. Recent studies provide more support for the subjective perspective and role of perception, than for the ecological perspective and role of objective features.…”

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Neighborhood satisfaction and reproductive status

Neal

Neal²

2022

PLoS ONE

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Both urban planners and urban scholars have been keenly interested in identifying the characteristics associated with neighborhood satisfaction. One robust but surprising pattern is that the presence or number of children in a household has no effect on neighborhood satisfaction. To clarify this pattern, we measured the neighborhood satisfaction of a representative sample of 1,000 Michigan adults, whom we divided into six distinct reproductive statuses: co-parents, single-parents, empty nesters, not-yet-parents, childless individuals, and childfree individuals. We found that a simple parent vs. non-parent dichotomy hides significant heterogeneity among these groups. Specifically, we found that single parents and childfree individuals experience significantly less neighborhood satisfaction than other groups. We conclude by reflecting on the methodological and practical implications of differences in neighborhood satisfaction when more nuanced reproductive statuses are considered.

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Neighborhood satisfaction and reproductive status

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Neal²

2022

PLoS ONE

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“…Det skaper en fornemmelse av at vi også kan få like mye glede i hverdagen som disse jentene -så lenge vi flytter til «antiurbane» omgivelser (jf. Mouratidis & Yiannakou, 2021). Bakgrunnen er dekontekstualisert; vi ser noen furutraer som konnoterer noe landlig og norsk, men settingen kan i prinsippet vaere hvor som helst i Norge.…”

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“…Med Eriksen (2019), Harrell-Levy og Harrell (2019) og Small (2004) er usikkerheten om skole og nabolag med på å utfordre flere foreldres tro på at indre by tilbyr de rette betingelsene for kulturell reproduksjon. Kanskje er vi her på sporet av en mulig forklaring på hvorfor det saerlig er «nabolagslykke» som synes å vaere vanskelig å finne i den tette byen (Mouratidis & Yiannakou, 2021). Uten å kunne fastslå i hvilken grad faktorer som krydderlukt og kulturarrangementer påvirket flyttebeslutningene til noen av våre informanter, stiller vi oss tvilende til at politiske tiltak kan forebygge lignende reaksjoner fra andre byboere.…”

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By eller forstad? En diskusjon av barnefamiliers flyttemotiver

Andersen¹,

Skrede²

2022

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Oslo kommune har som uttalt mål at indre by skal vaere et attraktivt bosted for barnefamilier. Flere kommentatorer, inkludert forskere, har hevdet at reurbanisering er en tydelig trend. Det vil si at bylivet er populaert, saerlig for middelklassen inkludert barnefamilier. Likevel viser forskning at denne gruppen er ustabil, da en stor andel barnefamilier flytter ut før barna når skolealderen. Samtidig som de store boligbyggerne i Oslo bygger nye leiligheter, finnes det i hovedstadens omland veletablerte småhusområder som tiltrekker seg mange av de tidligere urbane barnefamiliene. I denne artikkelen drøfter vi ulike faktorer som kan tenkes å påvirke barnefamiliers valg av bosted.

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“…While the second level concerns “soft” measures, which are dependent on individual perceptions and attitudes toward environmental quality. In the present study, we focus on the subjective level of residential environmental quality—perceived residential environment quality ( 5 – 7 ), and try to link it with one's perceived environmental correlate of neighborhood satisfaction—neighborhood attachment ( 8 ).…”

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Validation of the abbreviated indicators of perceived residential environment quality and neighborhood attachment in China

Mao

Luo

Guo

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Front. Public Health

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The purpose of this research is to utilize factor analyses to evaluate the reliability and factorial structure of an abbreviated version of the instrument that includes indicators of perceived residential environment quality (PREQ) and neighborhood attachment (NA) in Chinese urban environments. The instrument has 11 scales that measure PREQ and 1 scale measuring neighborhood attachment (NA). Architectural and urban planning aspects (three scales: Architectural and Town-planning Space, Organization of Accessibility and Roads, Green Areas), socio-relational aspects (one scale: People and Social Relations), functional aspects (four scales: Welfare Services, Recreational Services, Commercial Services, and Transport Services), and contextual aspects (three scales: Pace of Life, Environmental Health, and Upkeep and Care) are all covered by the 11 PREQ scales. A total of 1,332 people living in Chinese urban cities completed a self-report questionnaire that included these 12 scales. A calibration sample and a validation sample that were randomly split from the total sample verified the factorial structures of this instrument, and the abbreviated instrument had acceptable reliability and validity. The validated abbreviated version of the PREQ and NA instruments allowed for a more reliable and manageable tool that might lessen respondents' exhaustion of a large number of items, this also contributed to the policy-making for urban planning and practical architectural design.

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What makes cities livable? Determinants of neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness in different contexts

Cited by 86 publications

References 75 publications

Neighborhood satisfaction and reproductive status

Neighborhood satisfaction and reproductive status

By eller forstad? En diskusjon av barnefamiliers flyttemotiver

Validation of the abbreviated indicators of perceived residential environment quality and neighborhood attachment in China

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