scholarly journals Sustainable Housing Indicators and Improving the Quality of Life: The Case of Two Residential Areas in Baghdad City

2021 ◽  
Vol 754 (1) ◽  
pp. 012002
Author(s):  
Jakleen Qusen Zumaya ◽  
Jamal Baqir Motlak
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Sustainable Housing

Planning of Fishing Village in Dou-Long Port

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2765-2769
Author(s):  
Yan Chen ◽  
Da Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Harmonious Society ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Fishing Village ◽  
Road Congestion ◽  
Socialist Harmonious Society

With the development of building a socialist harmonious society and urbanization，building a new socialist countryside has become the focus of town planning.The industrial resources of Dou-long port,residents’ living environment and infrastructure are analyzed in detail in this paper. Some reasonable means of settlement are given according to the situation presented in Dou-long port’s development such as Distribution of scattered residential areas, road congestion, waste of land resources. After planning,you can achieve a radical improvement in the quality of life of residents.What more Dou-long port’s dirty and messy environment will be changed greatly.

Community quality of life. A case study of the new Popești Leordeni, Ilfov

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-361
Author(s):  
Andreea Acasandre
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Community Quality Of Life ◽  
Leisure Services ◽  
The People ◽  
Level I

This paper is concerned with the analysis of some worrying present tendencies of urban sprawl in the large, important economic centers of Romania. It focuses on the tendency of building new residential apartments on the outskirts of the big cities. Most of these developments target young people that belong to a still-developing middle class. Big problems emerge, however, when real estate investors take advantage of the buyers’ lack of experience and of the authorities’ poor management, offering small, badly-built apartments in new residential areas which are designed around only one function: housing. The absence of complementary functions that could support the development of communities gravely impairs the inhabitants’ quality of life. At the local level, I was able to identify two main problems: the absence of the necessary infrastructure to support such a massive increase in population, and the absence of local amenities. On a larger scale, the consequences are significant as well: chronic traffic jams due to the large number of people who commute to Bucharest daily, for work. Even though at first Popeşti-Leordeni (a satellite-town of Romania’s capital) was considered a good housing option, the people living there are rapidly becoming highly unsatisfied with their quality of life. In their opinion, the biggest problems of this urban area are the absence of green spaces, of leisure services, of parking options, and of means of public transportation. To these complaints, the inhabitants add dissatisfaction with the general problems caused by the endless building sites, which also represent one of the main causes for the lack of cleanliness, bad roads, noise and pollution plaguing the area. This paper, based both on the analysis of statistical data and on empirical research, aims to show that Popeşti-Leordeni, especially the New Popeşti neighborhood, is an example of bad housing caused by corruption, investors’ greed, bad management on the part of the authorities, and the young buyers’ inexperience. Keywords: quality of life; urban sprawl; satellite-town; mono-functionality; community.

scholarly journals Land-use change and quality of life in residential neighbourhoods: Evidence from Tehran, Iran

GeoScape ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
Navid Forouhar ◽  
Amir Forouhar ◽  
Mahnoosh Hasankhani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Structural Defects ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Commercial Development

Abstract Land-use planning generally aims to manage the development of urban areas to address the needs of the communities. In this regard, the multiple and often competing environmental, economic and social conflicts complicate the process of land-use planning. Commercial development in residential neighbourhoods is a common type of land-use conflict that can dramatically exacerbate these potential conflicts. Over the recent decades, many affluent neighbourhoods of Tehran Metropolis (the capital of Iran) have been confronted with an unbridled development of commercial activities within the residential areas. This paper seeks to understand the process of land-use change and its impacts on the residents’ quality of life in an affluent neighbourhood of Tehran Metropolis (Gisha Neighbourhood) by adopting a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of impact assessment including semi-structured interview, purposeful field survey, and traffic survey. The results yield that incompatible land-use policies of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan and structural defects in the land-use change regulations led to an unbridled process of commercialisation which intensified non-local activities with city/regional service coverage along the main streets of Gisha Neighbourhood. The analysis demonstrates that despite improving the accessibility of residents to urban facilities and reducing their travel time/cost, the process of land-use changes in Gisha Neighbourhood declined the residents’ quality of life by its considerable negative effects on socio-cultural structures, landuse patterns, traffic flow, and human health in the residential areas of the neighbourhood.

scholarly journals Do Fences Reduce Fear of Crime

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Siti Rasidah Md Sakip ◽  
Norhafizah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Nadiyanti Mat Nayan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Perceptions Of Crime ◽  
Open Access Article

The Roadmap of Government Transformation Program 2010 reported that the sense of fear of crime among Malaysians is quite high which is 89 percent. So, the questions is, do they feel safe without fence? Therefore, this paper seeks on the neighborhood with no fence to identify the sense of safety and fear of crime (FOC) among residents. The result indicates that longer resident living in residential areas is significant with perceptions of crime (POC) in the neighborhood (p = 0.00). The more people go out at night is also significant with POC in the neighborhood (p = 0.012). Keywords: Crime; quality of life; fear of crime; sense of safetyeISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Correlation between the perceived residential environment quality and the inhabitants’ quality of life and civic behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Michał Dębek ◽  
Bożena Janda-Dębek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Residential Environment ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life

AbstractAlthough it has been assumed for many years that there is a relationship between the subjectively perceived quality of residential environment and quality of life, empirical evidence for the existence of such a link has been inconclusive. It is also assumed that the perception of residential environment in a certain way covariates with the behavior of people in this environment; Empirical support for this correlation is now all the more problematic. The objectives in the our research project were as follows: (1) enriching the current knowledge about those links between the perceived quality of various residential areas and their inhabitants’ experienced quality of life, and (2) examining the co-variables between the sense of satisfaction with the residence and declared pro-social and civic behavior. For the purpose of our study, we proposed an original theoretical framework integrating several available man-environment-behavior relationship concepts with the more general homeodynamic regulation concept for achieving psychological balance. Sixty-two people aged 18 to 85 took part in the research. Two groups were identified in the analysis: young adults and seniors. No significant correlation was found between the respondents’ perceived quality of life and their satisfaction with the quality of the environment they inhabited. It was almost exclusively seniors who undertook activities to benefit the residential area, and their life quality was correlated with this activity. Young adults turned out to be generally inactive. Correlations between pro-social and civic behavior and the residential area’s assessed quality proved to be weak and simple, but had different directions and dimensions in young adults and seniors.

Analysis of Methods of Creating Microc-Limate for Waterfront Residential Areas in Tropics of South Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 2450-2453
Author(s):  
Yao Zhi Huang ◽  
Shu Fen Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Radiant Heat ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Ecological Development ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Reducing Energy

To ensure the low-carbon and ecological development of the residential areas, the coordinating climate planning must be done in earlier stage of design, and such design is even more important especially in tropics of South Asia. In order to create a good living environment and improve the quality of life, this paper is intended to create the microclimate in residential areas by guiding the predominant wind direction in residential areas, guiding the wind above water into the space of residential areas and optimizing the arrangement of plants and other aspects through the layout form of buildings under the condition of reducing energy consumption, to reduce radiant heat and meet the comfort of living in the residential areas, thus conducive to the study of design of comprehensive low-carbon residential areas.

scholarly journals Health-Related Quality of Life and Physical Activity in a Community Setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7301
Author(s):  
Marta Gil-Lacruz ◽  
Ana Isabel Gil-Lacruz ◽  
Paola Domingo-Torrecilla ◽  
Miguel Angel Cañete-Lairla
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

This article analyses how physical activity reinforces each of the dimensions (mental, physical, social, etc.) of the health-related quality of life concept. To that end, we determined whether this relationship is moderated by educational level and area of residence. The empirical part was based on data obtained from a cross-sectional survey carried out in the Casablanca neighbourhood (Zaragoza, Spain). The sample comprised 1083 participants aged between 25 and 84 years residing in the three residential areas of this neighbourhood: Viñedo Viejo, Las Nieves and Fuentes Claras. These three areas exhibit significant socio-economic differences in their population. The self-reported questionnaire included the following key information for this study: socio-economic characteristics (sex, age, educational level and area of residence) and health-related quality of life (WHOQOL-Brief: mental health, physical health, social relations and environment). The main results obtained from the descriptive statistics and regression systems were added. Playing a sport or undertaking some physical activity brings many health benefits, both physical and mental. The educational level and area of residence affect this relationship, such that the effects of physical activity are greater for those residents of Casablanca who have a higher educational level and/or live in more favoured areas of this neighbourhood. The results have also been discussed by sex and age group. Investing in innovative programmes in educational institutions and communities to acquire healthy habits and behaviour patterns that take into account socioeconomic differences in the population would be an advisable public health strategy.

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