Factors that influence residents' satisfaction with neighborhoods

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 619-635

  Hur, Misun ^a,b   Morrow Jones, Hazel ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighborhood satisfaction; Physical; Satisfactory and unsatisfactory neighborhood groups; Social

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; NEIGHBORHOOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION;

EID: 48749094996     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916507307483     Document Type: Article

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