The Quality of Urban Life and Neighborhood Satisfaction in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus

Oktay, Derya; Rüstemli, Ahmet

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1742-8_10

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“…High neighbourhood satisfaction has been found to increase households' sense of community and vice versa [23,24]. Oktay and Rustemli [25] investigated the quality of life in order to understand how people felt about their neighbourhood while neighbourhood was an important component of Turkoglu et al [26] study to measure quality of urban life in Istanbul.…”

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confidence: 99%

Quality of life: case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mridha¹

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the quality of life in six major residential areas in Dhaka as part of a larger research project on residential satisfaction. The paper investigates people's feelings about life with respect to their own living standards and life experiences, including their understanding and satisfaction with housing and the neighbourhood environment. The findings indicate the holistic, socio-physical neighbourhood environment as a significant contributor to residential satisfaction for the dwellers living in developer built medium-rise apartment buildings in Dhaka. It is also evident from the findings that sociophysical features of the neighbourhood and community influence life satisfaction more than strictly physical design features of individual dwelling.

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Quality of life: case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mridha¹

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…It is important to establish potential critical sustainability performance factors (CSPF) for residential satisfaction in HUQ, within the ambit of sustainability. Because [40] argues that the decaying character of the walled city is a problem in Famagusta, as the measures undertaken for its conversion and revitalization have not led to the attainment of a satisfactory state in terms of cultural or economic sustainability. A recent study by [14] developed a regeneration framework for professionals, different governmental agencies, institutions, and experts, the components that were reviewed and analysed in their framework are the results of municipality authorities that are presently confronted by planning problems.…”

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Exploring the Determinants of Residential Satisfaction in Historic Urban Quarters: Towards Sustainability of the Walled City Famagusta, North Cyprus

Davoodi

Dağlı

2019

Sustainability

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In recent times, despite the importance of historic urban quarters in the sustenance of ancient cultural heritage, planned modernization of urban areas usually neglects these culturally sensitive areas. Resulting in relocations and perceived dissatisfaction of its residents, this reported negligence is partly the result of a dearth of research exploring the multi-dimensional evaluation framework for assessing the long-term environmental, economic, social, and cultural aspects of residential satisfaction in historic urban quarters. Hence, the aspirations, needs, demands, and desires of the residents of historic urban quarters are not readily known to policy makers; neither is these needs, desires and expectations are well established in the residential satisfaction literature. The essence of residential satisfaction research is not merely to report the current living situation in a given residential environment, but also to pinpoint which facets the municipal governments must enhance to improve homeownership and rental rates, amongst others. Most of the studies on residential satisfaction merely focused on the social sustainability dimension, therefore, not acknowledging the salient roles, environmental, and economic concerns play in boosting the satisfaction levels of residents of historic urban quarters. Thus, this study aims to fill this gap between theory and application of the sustainability concept in addressing practical problems of relocations and perceived dissatisfaction amid residents of urban culturally sensitive areas. It fills this gap by assessing the perceptions of residents and non-residents on the importance of the determinants of residential satisfaction in a historic urban quarter. Regarding this, a comprehensive list of 32 potential sustainability performance factors (SPF) was determined through an extensive review of related literature, based on which a questionnaire administered to 245 households residing in the historic urban quarters of the Walled City, Famagusta, North Cyprus. Also, 167 households residing outside of the quarters, to assess their perception of the criticality of the identified factors, as well as examine the agreement levels in the opinions of the two participant groups. Using principal component analysis (PCA), the 32 different factors were narrowed down to eight. The study findings show that “Cost of housing” and “Suitable Management rules” are the most critical factors with relatively high overall scoring. Findings reveal that residents’ perceptions differ significantly based on participants’ ethnicity, while there is no significant difference based on the profile of residents/social class. This study argues that clearly understanding the criticality of the factors impacting satisfaction in housing and the residential environment is crucial for planning sustainable regeneration and revitalization programs in any HUQ. The findings of this study would be useful to housing policy decision-makers, urban planners, and municipalities to understand better the residents’ needs that could aid the sustenance of historic urban quarters. The authors suggest the adoption of the framework developed by this study as an analytical, research, and assessment tool in future housing satisfaction studies in different contexts.

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

Muslim

Karim

Abdullah

et al. 2018

AjBeS

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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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The Quality of Urban Life and Neighborhood Satisfaction in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

Quality of life: case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Quality of life: case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Exploring the Determinants of Residential Satisfaction in Historic Urban Quarters: Towards Sustainability of the Walled City Famagusta, North Cyprus

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

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