Planning for Happy Neighborhoods

Pfeiffer, Deirdre; Cloutier, Scott

doi:10.1080/01944363.2016.1166347

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“…Numerous studies have concluded that people living in walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods have higher well-being through greater connection to community, better access to healthy food, and opportunities for recreational and incidental physical activity, as compared to those living in homogenous areas designed to be navigated by car rather than on foot (Frank & Engelke, 2001;. There is also nascent research suggesting that the built environment impacts elements of subjective well-being, quite outside of its influence on health (see, for example, Pfeiffer & Cloutier, 2016). Subjective well-being is a broad concept, however its defining feature is self-evaluation.…”

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Transport disadvantage, social exclusion, and subjective well-being: The role of the neighborhood environment—evidence from Sydney, Australia

Kent

Mulley

2018

JTLU

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This study explores the effects of the neighborhood environment on transport disadvantage, social exclusion, personal health and subjective well-being (SWB) using survey data collected in Sydney, Australia. The data is analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM). Overall, our model supports the hypothesis that a walkable neighborhood environment helps to reduce transport disadvantage and increase social inclusion. Neighborhood density has negative effects on both physical and mental health, but a positive effect on SWB. Further, a cohesive neighborhood environment is associated with less transport disadvantage, more engagement in political and civic activities, more social help, better mental health and higher SWB. By contrast, perception of crime in a neighborhood is associated with more transport disadvantage and worse physical health. Neighborhood aesthetics and the neighborhood social environment have stronger effects on SWB than other neighborhood environment characteristics.

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Transport disadvantage, social exclusion, and subjective well-being: The role of the neighborhood environment—evidence from Sydney, Australia

Kent

Mulley

2018

JTLU

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“…Plutchik categorized emotions in a "wheel" format of eight primary emotions organized in contrasting pairs: Joy and sadness, anger and fear, trust and disgust, and surprise and anticipation (see Figure 1). Sustainability 2019, 11, x FOR PEER REVIEW 3 of 21 can better plan for "happy neighborhoods" [13] by understanding geographies that promote positive sentiments and emotions for CTUs. Our work will inform future government policies aimed at creating a more sustainable society.…”

Section: Happiness Studies: Yielding Insight Into the Range Of Human mentioning

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“…With mounting evidence that happiness and other emotional states are influenced by the environment, and that such states have impacts on health, Pfeiffer and Cloutier [13] outlined the need to study the role that urban planners can play in increasing mental and emotional health among a population. In addition, as reported by Pfeiffer and Cloutier [13] (p. 275), Diener [20] found that "people from diverse cultures and varying levels of affluence spend similar amounts of time thinking about happiness and ascribe similar importance to it". Planners' significant role in government efforts to shape the environment, such as facilitating outdoor access and designing transportation infrastructure to be safe and appealing to users of all modes of travel, provides an excellent starting point.…”

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“…By understanding the barriers as well as the enticements to cycle, local governments can initiate policies that increase the likelihood that people will spend time outdoors. One of the implications of our analysis is that we can better plan for "happy neighborhoods" [13] by understanding geographies that promote positive sentiments and emotions for CTUs. Our work will inform future government policies aimed at creating a more sustainable society.…”

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Mapping the Emotional Experience of Travel to Understand Cycle-Transit User Behavior

2019

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People experience emotions during travel. Driving, riding a bicycle, taking transit, and walking all involve multiple mental processes, potentially leading to various ranges of emotions such as fear, anger, sorrow, joy, and anticipation. Understanding the link between emotions and transportation environments is critical to planning efforts aiming to bring about a more environmentally sustainable society. In this paper, we identified, geo-coded, analyzed, and visualized emotions experienced by cycle-transit users, or CTUs, who combine bicycling and public transit in a single trip. We addressed two research questions: (1) What types of emotions do CTUs experience, why, and where? (2) How can mapping and understanding these emotions help urban planners comprehend CTU travel behavior and build a more sustainable transportation system? Based on 74 surveys completed by CTUs in Philadelphia, USA, we performed a content analysis of textual data and sketch maps, coded for emotional content, attached emotions with geo-referenced locations using GIS, and finally created four types of emotional maps. Overall, CTUs expressed 50 negative and 31 positive sentiments. Anger was the most frequently identified emotion, followed by disgust, fear, sadness, and joy. Twenty-five transportation planners reviewed the maps; the majority found that the maps could effectively convey an emotional account of a journey, opinions on routes and locations, or emotions attached to them. This paper advances theory and practice in two ways. First, the method privileges a heretofore little examined form of knowledge-the emotional experience of CTUs-and transportation planners confirm the value of this knowledge for practice. Second, it extends the study of emotional geographies to the transportation environment, pointing out venues for additional planning interventions. We conclude that mapping emotions reveals a more comprehensive understanding of travel experience that aids in better transportation planning and happier neighborhoods.

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“…The second stage (participant engagement) lies upon the engagement of individuals in non‐hierarchical sustainable processes; thus, they are now considered as real members of the project team, who participate to the development of enhancing actions (Hofstede & McCrae, ). The next stage (profit inventory) focuses on the collection of those individuals' characteristics able to foster a long‐lasting happiness or a sustainable happy future for themselves, other community members, and the whole society (Pfeiffer & Cloutier, ). The fourth stage (system planning) calls for a systematic planning, pointing to involve specific subsystems (or other related systems) and to meet desires and visions of the individuals belonging to them.…”

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How to pursue a sustainable happiness in prison communities: An Italian case study

Cosimato

Faggini

Prete

2019

Sustainable Development

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Happiness is common, but multifaceted concept, which attracted over the time the interest of many different scholars. In the last decades, happiness has been coupled with sustainability, boosting an interdisciplinary research and policy development, pointing to ascertain the drivers of individual, communities, and global well‐being or the so‐called sustainable happiness. This study aims at contributing to the debate on sustainable happiness, focusing on the importance that both individual and collective characteristics can have on the long‐lasting happiness of community. To this end, a qualitative analysis has been conducted; thus, an explorative case study has been presented and discussed. The achieved results offers some interesting theoretical and policy implications for the further improvement of individual and collective happiness in communities, such as prisons.

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Planning for Happy Neighborhoods

Cited by 125 publications

References 87 publications

Transport disadvantage, social exclusion, and subjective well-being: The role of the neighborhood environment—evidence from Sydney, Australia

Transport disadvantage, social exclusion, and subjective well-being: The role of the neighborhood environment—evidence from Sydney, Australia

Mapping the Emotional Experience of Travel to Understand Cycle-Transit User Behavior

How to pursue a sustainable happiness in prison communities: An Italian case study

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