Sustainability versus liveability: an investigation of neighbourhood satisfaction
Sustainability versus liveability: an investigation of neighbourhood satisfaction
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可持续性与宜居性:邻里满意度调查
DOI:
10.1080/09640560903083798
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
D. Redmond
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
P. Howley;Mark Scott;D. Redmond
Recent years have witnessed an increasing emphasis placed on planning systems in most advanced capitalist societies to develop a more sustainable urban development pattern, resulting in policies to increase residential densities. Although belief in the virtues of the compact city approach is now widespread among the policy community, questions remain relating to the ‘sustainability versus liveability’ implications of compact city environments. In this regard, while the public may support sustainability principles, there is a perception that high-density development poses too great a cost on individuals' quality of life. Combining both quantitative and qualitative research data, this paper evaluates the relationship between high-density living and neighbourhood satisfaction within the central city. Findings suggest that, in many instances, it is not high density per se that is the source of dissatisfaction for respondents, but rather other related factors such as environmental quality, noise, lack of community involvement, traffic and lack of services and facilities.