Social selectivity of residential choice with regard to green spaces and their impact on quality of life

迄今为止，关于环境正义的研究主要集中在空气和饮用水污染等环境风险的社会不平等分配上，而积极的环境商品的分配却很少研究。面对日益增加的建筑压力和日益炎热的夏季，城市绿色空间受到人们的高度重视，即使在德国城市也是如此。我们调查的分布和社会功能的城市绿色空间（公园，行道树，私人花园，和河岸带）的住宅人口区分的社会阶层在两个主要的德国城市。在此过程中，我们以项目第一阶段的调查结果为基础。我们能够表明，缺乏绿化的直接生活环境与较低的生活满意度，并触发搬迁的考虑，在某些阶段的生活;和居住满意度在工人阶级是更强烈地相关的绿色窗口比在上层阶级。我们的目标是证实这些调查结果的暗示和评估客观的结构数据的地理编码的地址，除了调查数据。此外，我们希望更详细地调查绿色空间的社会功能，并系统地描述不同社会阶层的成员对绿色空间的使用。具体而言，我们的延续项目追求四个目标：（1）描述不同社会阶层的人对居住环境中的绿色空间（公园、田野、森林、河岸带的各种活动）的使用，并按生命阶段进行区分。(2)对城市绿色空间的作用进行更深入的分析，并确定“适当的绿色数量”，以满足不同社会阶层和不同生活阶段的住房和生活满意度，同时也以地理编码的居住地址的客观数据为基础。(3)分析城市绿色空间的社会功能，按社会阶层和生活阶段区分，特别是关于情感依恋和城市绿色空间作为象征资本的价值。(4)在项目结束时，数据将被匿名化并转移到全球同步信息系统数据档案，包括两个调查波的详细数据说明和详细代码簿。

Studies on environmental justice have so far focused on the socially unequal distribution of environmental risks, such as air and drinking water pollution, while the distribution of positive environmental goods has been little researched. Urban green spaces are highly valued by the population in the face of increasing building pressure and increasingly hot summers, even in German cities. We investigate the distribution and social functions of urban green space (parks, street trees, private gardens, and riparian zones) in the residential population differentiated by social class exemplarily in two major German cities. In doing so, we build on findings from the first phase of the project. We were able to show that a lack of greenery in the immediate living environment is associated with lower life satisfaction and triggers relocation considerations in certain phases of life; and that residential satisfaction in the working class is more strongly related to a green window view than in the upper classes. We aim to corroborate these findings by alluding to and evaluating objective structural data on geo-coded addresses in addition to survey data. Furthermore, we want to investigate the social functions of green spaces in more detail and systematically describe the use of green spaces by members of different social classes. In detail, we pursue four goals with the requested continuation project: (1) Description of the use of green spaces in the residential environment (various activities in parks, fields, forests, riparian zones) by members of different social classes and differentiated by life phases.(2) Deeper analysis of the role of urban green spaces and determination of the "right amount of green" for housing and life satisfaction of different social classes and differentiated by life stages, also based on objective data with geo-coded residential addresses. (3) Analysis of social functions of urban green spaces, differentiated by social classes and life phases, esp. with regard to emotional attachment and the value of urban green spaces as symbolic capital.(4) Archiving of data for subsequent useAt the end of the project, the data will be anonymized and transferred to the GESIS data archive, including a detailed data description and detailed codebooks for the two survey waves.