Assessment and determinants of satisfaction with urban livability in China

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.02.025

	Assessment and determinants of satisfaction with urban livability in China
	Zhan, Dongsheng 3,4; Kwan, Mei-Po 1,5; Zhang, Wenzhong 3,6; Fan, Jie 3,6; Yu, Jianhui 3,6; Dang, Yunxiao 2
刊名	CITIES
	2018-09-01
卷号	79 页码:92-101
关键词	Urban livability Satisfaction Determinants Geographical detector China
ISSN号	0264-2751
DOI	10.1016/j.cities.2018.02.025
通讯作者	Zhang, Wenzhong(zhangwz@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Building livable cities has been an important goal for new urbanization in China. Thus, understanding residents' satisfaction with urban livability in China and its determinants is beneficial for urban planning and policy making regarding livable cities construction. However, scientific evidence on satisfaction with urban livability towards Chinese cities is still lacking. Drawing on large-scale questionnaire surveys conducted in 2015 in 40 major cities in China, this paper aims to explore the characteristics of satisfaction with urban livability and the effect magnitude of its determinants using the geographical detector model. The results show that the respondents are just moderately satisfied with urban livability in China (2.996). With respect to the dimensions of urban livability, the respondents are relatively satisfied with the convenience of public facilities (3.118), the natural environment (3.057) and the sociocultural environment (3.056), while slightly dissatisfied with urban security (2.788), environmental health (2.912) and convenient transportation (2.929). The result of the geographical detector model further reveals that all the six dimensions of urban livability have significant and positive impacts upon overall satisfaction with urban livability, of which the natural environment, convenient transportation, environmental health are the greatest contributing factors. Moreover, individual socioeconomic attributes such as geographical location, type of housing, education, family size, age, hukou status, also exert significant effects on overall satisfaction with urban livability in descending order, but the magnitude of their effects is far less than that of the dimensions of urban livability.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41230632] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41529101] ; UCAS Joint Ph.D. Training Program ; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
WOS关键词	RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION ; LIFE-SATISFACTION ; MIGRANT WORKERS ; OGUN STATE ; NEIGHBORHOOD ; QUALITY ; CONTEXT ; HEALTH ; LIVEABILITY ; CITIES
WOS研究方向	Urban Studies
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000439538300010
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; UCAS Joint Ph.D. Training Program ; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/129947]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Zhang, Wenzhong
作者单位	1.Univ Utrecht, Dept Human Geog & Spatial Planning, Utrecht, Netherlands 2.Zhejiang Univ Finance & Econ, Land & Urban Rural Dev Inst, Hangzhou 310018, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Reg Sustainable Dev Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 5.Univ Illinois, Dept Geog & Geog Informat Sci, Urbana, IL 61820 USA 6.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhan, Dongsheng,Kwan, Mei-Po,Zhang, Wenzhong,et al. Assessment and determinants of satisfaction with urban livability in China[J]. CITIES,2018,79:92-101.
APA	Zhan, Dongsheng,Kwan, Mei-Po,Zhang, Wenzhong,Fan, Jie,Yu, Jianhui,&Dang, Yunxiao.(2018).Assessment and determinants of satisfaction with urban livability in China.CITIES,79,92-101.
MLA	Zhan, Dongsheng,et al."Assessment and determinants of satisfaction with urban livability in China".CITIES 79(2018):92-101.