%0 Thesis
%9 Bachelor
%A Boer, Rosemarie den
%D 2021
%F theses_frw:3744
%P 34
%T Happy Living on a Woonerf
%U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3744/
%X This research aims to find out whether living on a woonerf influences subjective well-being in the city of Groningen. This research is conducted using a mixed-method approach, both quantitative and qualitative research. The quantitative research contained a questionnaire, spread over households in the Hortusbuurt. The variables were chosen based on existing literature and used in an ordinal logistic regression. The findings show that contact with street residents, as well as the number of household members and residence satisfaction, influences happiness. Education and housing characteristics influence happiness too but to a smaller extent. Qualitative research shows a higher relation between the effect of greenery, traffic and social contact on happiness which follows the existing literature. Living in a street with greenery, less traffic and more social contact leads to higher SWB and therefore, there can be assumed that people on a woonerf are happier. However, further research is needed, and the suggestion is to expand the scale and add multiple and more precise questions on each variable.