Indicators of the perception of residential environments: A tool for urban planning. Case study of Flores, Costa Rica
Authors
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Helga von Breymann
Universidad de Costa Rica
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6841-5953
Abstract
The use of tools designed to measure the perceived quality of a residential environment within urban planning and management processes has been little explored despite its value as a strategy to improve urban quality of life. There is a need to promote the implementation of these instruments and contextualize them with the features of the environment to further enhance the influence on urban environments within a changing and diverse world where planning demands the emergence of new intervention mechanisms. This research seeks to contribute to this end. The use of a self-reporting tool to measure the perceived quality of the environment allowed the collection of data from a residential area in Flores, Costa Rica. The analysis of this information greatly contributed to understand the relationship between the characteristics of geographical environments and their perceived quality. The findings of this research made it possible to identify the relationship between urban and residential satisfaction and urban characteristics, allowing us to elaborate arguments for the future promotion of urban intervention strategies.References
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Bonaiuto, M., Aiello, A., Perugini, M., Bonnes, M., y Ercolani, A.P. (1999). Multidimensional perception of residential environment quality and neighbourhood attachment in the urban environment. Journal of environmental psychology, 19(4), 331-352. https://doi.org/10.1006/jevp.1999.0138
Bonaiuto, M., Fornara, F., y Bonnes, M. (2003). Indexes of perceived residential environment quality and neighbourhood attachment in urban environments: a confirmation study on the city of Rome. Landscape and urban planning, 65(1-2), 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-2046(02)00236-0
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Echeverría, M.C. (2009). Hábitat, prácticas y norma: ¿adaptarse o adaptar? Actas del hábitat popular, 1(1), 130-137.
Fornara, F., Bonaiuto, M., y Bonnes, M. (2010). Cross-validation of abbreviated perceived residential environment quality (PREQ) and neighborhood attachment (NA) indicators. Environment and Behavior, 42(2), 171-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916508330998
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Hall, P. (1996). Ciudades del mañana: historia del urbanismo en el siglo XX. Barcelona: Ediciones del Serbal.
Hall, L.J., Madrigal, R., y Robalino, J. (2008). Quality of life in urban neighborhoods in Costa Rica. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank.
Holcombe, R.G. (1995). Public policy and the quality of life: market incentives versus government planning. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Jansen, S.J.T. (2014). The impact of the have–want discrepancy on residential satisfaction. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 40, 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.04.006
Kaplan, R., Kaplan, S., y Ryan, R. (1998). With people in mind: Design and management of everyday nature. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Marans, R.W. y Spreckelmeyer, K.F. (1981). Evaluating built environments: A behavioral approach. Ann Arbor: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Marans, R.W. y Stimson, R.J. (Eds.). (2011). Investigating quality of urban life: Theory, methods, and empirical research. London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1742-8
Oktay, D. y Rustemli, A. (2011). The quality of urban life and neighborhood satisfaction in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. En R.W. Marans y R.J. Stimson (Eds.), Investigating quality of urban life: Theory, methods, and empirical research (pp. 233-249). London: Springer.
Park, R.E., Burgess, E.W., y McKenzie, R.D. (1925). The city. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Preiser, W.F.E., Rabinowitz, H.R., y White, E.T. (1988). Post Occupation Evaluation. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Sanoff, H. (2000). Community participation methods in design and planning. New York: Wiley.
Sassen, S. (1991). The global city: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Sirgy, M.J. y Cornwell, T. (2002). How neighborhood features affect quality of life. Social indicators research, 59(1), 79-114. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016021108513
Tonon, G. (2010). La utilización de indicadores de calidad de vida para la decisión de políticas públicas. Polis (Santiago), 9(26), 361-370. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-65682010000200017
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Velarde, E. y Ávila, C. (2002). Evaluación de la calidad de vida. Salud Pública de México, 44(4), 349-361.
von Breymann y Montenegro. (2019). Validation of a scale to measure perceived residential environment quality in a Latin American setting. Psyecology. https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2019.1579471.
Vos, R. (1996). Hacia un sistema de indicadores sociales. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank.
Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a way of life. American journal of sociology, 44(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1086/217913
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