Life satisfaction and perceived and objective neighborhood environments in a green-accredited township: Quantile regression approach

Tan, Teck Hong; Lee, Weng Chang

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104196

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“…Similarly, Park and Lee (2016) and Tsuchiya-Ito et al (2019) demonstrated that higher levels of satisfaction with neighborhood environmental factors were responsible for higher well-being among older adults in Korea and Japan. In addition, Tan and Lee (2022) and Tan and Lee (2023) examined the effects of residential environment characteristics and neighborhood environment on life satisfaction among older adults in Malaysia. In Western countries, older adults' well-being is also associated with better home and neighborhood environments (Parra et al, 2010;Curl and Mason, 2019).…”

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Assessing the significance of first place and online third places in supporting Malaysian seniors’ well-being during the pandemic

Tan

Idris

2023

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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The enforced lockdowns and social distancing measures associated with COVID-19 may have influenced older adults’ preferences towards their homes and neighborhoods as well as social spaces. One objective of this research is to determine whether home and neighborhood environments (“first place”) affect how satisfied older adults are with their lives during the epidemic. This study also examined the extent to which social spaces that exist in the virtual world (“online third places”) affect older adults’ life satisfaction when they would have to practice risk-averse behaviors in times of pandemic. To collect data, this study analyzed the responses of 500 active older adults and conducted in-depth interviews with seven older adults who served as neighborhood leaders in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The study found that there is a direct relationship between older adults’ satisfaction with their current housing and their overall life satisfaction during the pandemic. Similarly, having a quality neighborhood nearby increases the likelihood of living a satisfied life during the pandemic. Most online third parties, with the exception of instant messaging apps, do not appear to provide older adults with an adequate platform to interact with their friends, participate in social networking, and join communities for emotional support during the pandemic. The findings and recommendations of this study would be very useful in developing effective interventions to promote aging in place during the coronavirus outbreak.

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Assessing the significance of first place and online third places in supporting Malaysian seniors’ well-being during the pandemic

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Idris

2023

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“…The Malaysian Green Township evaluative system emerged in the early 2010s, encouraging townships and surrounding communities to pursue a multitude of sustainability goals, from environmental conservation to improving community well-being [ 27 ]. While new and regeneration projects have certainly made achievements in areas such as accessibility, livability, and appearance [ 28 , 29 ], research has also unveiled concerns, including growing class disparities, gentrification, and lack of civic engagement due to environmental injustices ingrained within the urban development process [ 26 , 30 , 31 ].…”

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“…Other US-based studies suggested underachievement in social equity and livability, such as affordable housing, crime reduction, demographic diversity, and green space provision [ 45 , 46 ]. In the Asia context, several studies assessed the outcomes of pilot projects certified by Malaysia’s Green Township Index, showing deficiencies in areas such as biodiversity considerations, flood protection, low-impact materials, demographic diversity, universal accessibility [ 47 , 48 ], security, and community participation [ 28 , 29 ]. Neighborhood-level discourses in India mainly explored how the degree of land-use mix influenced neighborhood sustainability, with results generally supporting a moderate level of land-use mix based on travel behavior measures and resident perception [ 49 ].…”

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Sustainability outcomes and policy implications: Evaluating China’s “old urban neighborhood renewal” experiment

Wang,

Wu,

Chiles

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Globally, old urban neighborhood transformation has become a new urban sustainability focus for its significant contribution to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 11. A regeneration-oriented approach is particularly important for Chinese cities with a dwindling land supply, obsoleting infrastructure, and inadequate standard of living. Using a mixed-methods approach informed by BREEAM Communities, we examined two Chinese initiatives—old urban neighborhood renewal (OUNR) and sponge city development (SCD)—through a comprehensive study of pilot project sustainability, policy emphases and gaps, and broader governance implications. We found that SCD’s top-down technocratic management was highly efficient in enhancing neighborhood hydrological functions and physical environment. However, successes were undermined by the lack of climate considerations and civic participation. Besides actionable recommendations for applied scholarship and policymaking in China, we provide insight into how the OUNR/SCD initiatives may broadly inform worldwide urban regeneration practices through project and policy experimentations that build adaptive capacity.

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“…As for recreational walking behavior, perceived environmental factors have a greater impact than morphological factors such as accessibility and connectivity, and people living in vegetation-rich communities are more conducive to the occurrence of walking behavior [17]. The aesthetic sense of the built environment and personal satisfaction with the environment have a positive promoting effect on walking behavior [18,19].…”

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How Does the Living Street Environment in the Old Urban Districts Affect Walking Behavior? A General Multi-Factor Framework

Dong,

Zhang,

Yang

2023

Sustainability

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To strike a trade-off between walking behavior and street resource constraint, extensive research tends to focus on how the urban environment affects walking behavior. However, most of the existing impact measurements focus on the cities in low-latitude temperate environments, which may not truly reflect the situation when assessing high-latitude cities. To address this drawback, in this paper, a general multi-factor framework is introduced to quantify the influence of street-level environmental factors on walking behavior. Specifically, a framework is constructed by comprehensively considering the subjective data and the objective data of Harbin, China, which is mainly composed of multivariate measurement indicators, a multi-source data analysis library, and four-dimensional evaluation paradigm. The results indicate that two main measures can promote the current situation of human-oriented living street environment planning, namely, increasing the distribution of green facilities and life service facilities in the old urban districts living street, and paying attention to the diversity of street greening and street landscape. The proposed framework is conducive to improve the planning status of human-centered street environments and guide the construction of pedestrian-friendly life and healthy streets.

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Life satisfaction and perceived and objective neighborhood environments in a green-accredited township: Quantile regression approach

Cited by 8 publications

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Assessing the significance of first place and online third places in supporting Malaysian seniors’ well-being during the pandemic

Assessing the significance of first place and online third places in supporting Malaysian seniors’ well-being during the pandemic

Sustainability outcomes and policy implications: Evaluating China’s “old urban neighborhood renewal” experiment

How Does the Living Street Environment in the Old Urban Districts Affect Walking Behavior? A General Multi-Factor Framework

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