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Media Consumption and Racial Residential Preferences

Social Science Quarterly, 2020
ObjectiveTo what extent do mainstream media, social media, and ethnic media consumption, as dominant and counter‐dominant forms of public discourse, connect to where people prefer to live? We unpack whether media consumption influences such preferences in Texas, a racially segregated and increasingly racially diverse state.MethodsUsing the Texas ...
Elizabeth Korver‐Glenn, Sylvia Emmanuel, Mary E. Campbell, Verna M. Keith   +3 more
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SEX, COMPLEXITY, AND PREFERENCES FOR RESIDENTIAL FACADES

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1999
Analysis of variance was used to find out how much variance in preference for residential facades could be attributed to places or people. In accordance with previous findings based on other stimuli, places accounted for more preference variance than did people (16% vs 0%).
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Population Redistribution, Migration, and Residential Preferences

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1977
Census Bureau population estimates for metro politan and nonmetropolitan areas in the 1970s reveal, for the first time in over 50 years, higher population growth and net in-migration for nonmetropolitan areas than metropolitan areas. This dramatic and largely unanticipated reversal in the traditional population growth pattern is not limited to non ...
Gordon F. De Jong, Ralph R. Sell
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Residential Kitchen Preferences of Generation Y

Housing and Society, 2008
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to understand residential kitchen preferences of Generation Y consumers who will become 34% of the total U.S. population by the year 2010. This group shows significant differences from their predecessors in demographics and life style. The study was conducted in two phases. In phase one an online survey was sent to
N. Yaprak Savut, Marina Alexander
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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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