Cross-Validation of Abbreviated Perceived Residential Environment Quality (PREQ) and Neighborhood Attachment (NA) Indicators

Fornara, Ferdinando; Bonaiuto, Marino; Bonnes, Mirilia

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“…However, very few studies have utilized building or neighborhood-scale data sets to evaluate residents' life satisfaction, which could be distributed unevenly within a city or county and across its neighborhoods. Furthermore, residential satisfaction is thought to include a range of domains, such as physical qualities of the dwelling as well as features of the surrounding neighborhood, social environment, and place attachment [27,28].…”

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Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

Wood

Ditchman

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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There has been a long-standing debate about whether urban living is more or less sustainable than suburban living, and quality of life (QoL) is one of several key measures of the social sustainability of residential living. However, to our knowledge, no study to date has examined life satisfaction among residents of downtown high-rise living compared to residents living in suburban low-rise housing. Further, very few studies have utilized building or neighborhood-scale data sets to evaluate residents' life satisfaction, and even fewer have controlled for both individual and household-level variables such as gender, age, household size, annual income, and length of residence, to evaluate residents' life satisfaction across different living scenarios. Therefore, the goal of this study was to investigate residents' satisfaction with their place of residence as well as overall life in general via surveys of individuals living in existing high-rise residential buildings in downtown Chicago, IL, and in existing low-rise residential buildings in suburban Oak Park, IL. Over 1500 individuals were contacted directly, resulting in over 500 responses. The number of fully completed responses for this study was 177, including 94 from residents of four downtown high-rise buildings and 83 from residents in suburban low-rise homes. Residents living in downtown high-rise buildings had significantly higher life satisfaction scores than residents living in suburban low-rise homes when controlling for demographic differences; however, the differences were small, as housing type explained less than 5% of the observed variance in life satisfaction outcomes. The research also evaluated five life satisfaction domains including travel, accessibility, social interaction, safety, and overall residential environment (ORE). In all cases, residents of the downtown high-rises reported higher satisfaction levels, although the scores on all these five satisfaction domains reported from both urban scenarios were very high. Moreover, all five satisfaction domains were highly associated with each other, and accessibility and safety were found as the strongest predictors of ORE for individuals.

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Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

Wood

Ditchman

et al. 2017

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“…Studies in residential satisfaction must include both space and residents as users of this space (Adriaanse, 2007;Berkoz & Kellekci, 2007). The residential area is not limited to the house but also expand to the environment where it is situated and the residents who live there because the off-campus student's experience with their neighborhood and neighbors may be just as important as their house itself (Aiello, Ardone, & Scopelliti, 2010;Bonaiuto, Aiello, Perugini, Bonnes, & Ercolani, 1999;Bonaiuto, Fornara, & Bonnes, 2003;Dasimah et al, 2011;Fleury-Bahi, Félonneau, & Marchand, 2008;Fornara, Bonaiuto, & Bonnes, 2010;Mohit, Ibrahim, & Rashid, 2010;Oktay & Rustemli, 2011;Parkes, Kearns, & Atkinson, 2002).…”

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“…The second is whether 'dimensions of satisfaction' are similar at the different levels of the environment. The term 'dimensions of satisfaction' refers to the aspects, characteristics, and features of the residential environment (such as social, spatial, contextual and functional) to which the users respond in relation to satisfaction (Fornara et al, 2010;Muslim, Karim, & Abdullah, 2012a, 2012b. This is essential because it would inform researchers about the important dimensions at different levels of the environment.…”

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Assessing Residential Satisfaction by Level of Residence in Off-Campus Environment

Muslim

Karim

Abdullah

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This study aims to clarify the explanatory factors and the extent to which those factors help to predict the overall residential satisfaction among students living off-campus. This survey utilized a stratified sample of individuals with a questionnaire which was administered to 341 non-resident (NR) students, in seven groups of neighborhoods in the city of Shah Alam. In the analytic process, a Factor Analysis procedure is applied to reduce the data set and to uncover the relationships between various factors and dimensions of the students' residential satisfaction. Descriptive results show a degree of satisfaction with each level of the residential environment.

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“…Planners experience the environment differently than other social groups, but their decisions about resource allocation have a great impact. This level has often been defined as the objective because it involves physically hard measures or expert judgments [19]. Planners operate in accordance with the principles of good practice.…”

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“…Their priorities are aesthetically functional, technological, economic, legal, and environmental ( Figure 2). On the other hand, users' environmental perceptions are always subjective because they rely on individual responses [19]. Their observations offer a soft measure of environmental quality [19] that is dependent upon the individual's sex, age, time, experience, and culture.…”

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Open Space Evaluation Methodology and Three Dimensional Evaluation Model as a Base for Sustainable Development Tracking

Cafuta

2015

Sustainability

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Sustainable development, as a concept of controlled development, is a management characteristic. Adaptation to progress is important to achieve sustainability. The research focus here is on developing an evaluation methodology for determining the characteristics of urban open space. A method was designed for use in the comparative analysis of environmental perception evaluation between different time sequences. It allows us to compare results before and after spatial interventions or spatial development tracking over time. The newly-developed SEC model (suitable for everyone, environmentally-accepted, and cost-effective) was an essential element used in the research methodology. The model was designed using the systematic principle, the top-down approach, and the decomposition method. Three basic dimensions were divided into six factors. Factors were divided into eighteen indicators that are either quantitatively or qualitatively assessed. Indicators were divided into several aspects. An instrument (questionnaire) was developed to support the evaluation methodology of urban open space characteristics. Every aspect belongs to a question in the questionnaire. The applicability of the SEC model was demonstrated in two case studies. Evaluation took place during two different time sequences, once during the day-time and once during the night. Obtained results provide useful information of the current spatial situation needed for sustainable development strategy preparation.

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Cross-Validation of Abbreviated Perceived Residential Environment Quality (PREQ) and Neighborhood Attachment (NA) Indicators

Cited by 169 publications

References 36 publications

Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

Assessing Residential Satisfaction by Level of Residence in Off-Campus Environment

Open Space Evaluation Methodology and Three Dimensional Evaluation Model as a Base for Sustainable Development Tracking

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