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Residential segregation and preference misalignment

Journal of Urban Economics, 2003
Abstract This paper studies the role of disparities in neighborhood composition preferences in perpetuating residential segregation. Evidence from the Multi-city study of urban inequality (MCSUI) suggests that it would be impossible to simultaneously sort White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic households into neighborhoods that match their stated ideal ...
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Reassessing Residential Preferences for Redevelopment

City & Community, 2011
While scholars argue that redevelopment and gentrification result in large part from the unique preferences of middle–class residents moving to neighborhoods after decades of flight, almost all of this evidence is extrapolated from the behavior of residents already living in redeveloped neighborhoods.
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Household preferences for residential electricity contracts

2021
In Australia, a trilemma has emerged among the three stated objectives of energy policy, namely maintaining high system reliability, providing affordable energy and achieving a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. These three objectives cannot be simultaneously achieved in the short to medium term.
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Residential Environmental Preferences and Choice: Empirically Validating Preference Measures

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1972
In order to evaluate demands for new forms of residential environments (such as cluster development rather than the spread pattern of suburban sprawl), it may be useful to deal with persons' residential preferences directly, rather than their market choice.
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Residential Preferences and Rural Development Policy

1978
Excerpts from the article: Since 1970, fewer people have been moving to the city, and increased numbers have been moving to rural (nonmetropolitan) America. For a few decades, however, population policy has focused on the problems of city growth, suburban expansion, and rural decline.
Zuiches, James J., Carpenter, Edwin H., Zuiches, James J., Carpenter, Edwin H.   +3 more
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Residential preferences and eldercare views of Hispanic elders

Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1997
A cross-sectional, qualitative study was undertaken with a group (n = 10) of elderly Mexican-American men and women in an inner city congregate meal site of a large Midwestern city. The purpose of the study was to explicate: the older adults' residential preferences should they become unable to live in their own homes, and their beliefs about eldercare.
R A, Johnson, V L, Schwiebert, P, Alvarado-Rosenmann, G, Pecka, N, Shirk   +4 more
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Adult Viewers' Preferences in Residential Scenes

Environment and Behavior, 1983
A set of 18 adjective descriptors of visual attributes in the environment were given to design professionals to assess 60 residential scenes. In a factor analysis of these data, four factors Diversity, Nuisances, Enclosure and Clarity were obtained. The 60 scenes were divided into two sets of 30 scenes.
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Residential and Caregiver Preferences of Older Korean Americans

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore the residential and caregiver preferences of older Korean Americans if they were to become bedridden. The purposive sam ple consisted of 12 individuals from three residential settings in the Chicago area: senior housing, co-residing with adult children, and nursing homes.
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Housing culture, residential preferences and sustainability

2017
This chapter aims to discuss the prevailing Norwegian housing development and housing culture from a sustainability perspective and assess to what extent current trends toward more acceptance of dense forms of living are sufficient to bring us closer to sustainability goals.
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Telecommuting and residential locational preferences

2007
Traditionally, along with stages of the life cycle and changes in people's financial status and their household composition, the commute distance has been identified as one of the main explanatory factors for residential locational preferences and subsequent migration flows.
Muhammad, S., Ottens, H. F.L., Ettema, D., De Jong, T.   +3 more
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