Skrebels, Rems (2024) Neighborhood Design and Neighborhood Satisfaction. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
20th century city planning was dominated by car-centric development and aesthetic minimalism, with a strong departure from traditional design of buildings and planning of cities. However, in recent decades a niche alternative perspective has gained ground. New urbanism, originating in the US, is a reaction to this previous path of city development and planning and a handful of neighborhoods and towns have appeared in different parts of the world. While new urbanism promotes many aspects that contemporary architects and urban planners praise such as mixed-use development, walkable neighborhoods, sustainable transport options etc., the main point of disagreement is it’s neotraditional architecture, which some call exclusionary, pastiche and fake. While valid criticisms exist, the academic literature does not investigate the residents’ attitude towards these neighborhoods. This research explores neighborhood design and its relation to overall neighborhood satisfaction, with the central research question being “to what extent do the design principles of new urbanism influence residents' neighborhood satisfaction compared to residents of other neighborhoods?”. The research design employs a mix-methods approach of a comparative analysis between 2 selected cases of Brandevoort and Meerhoven-Grasrijk in the North Brabant province of the Netherlands and a mainly quantitative survey with qualitative and spatial components. As a result, it became clear that there is a significant difference of overall neighborhood satisfaction in favor of the new urbanism neighborhood. Furthermore, a correlation analysis revealed that the new urbanism neighborhood residents showcased a strong link between valuing their surrounding built environment image and overall neighborhood satisfaction. With a regression analysis it was established that in the contemporary neighborhood a strong relationship exists between community interaction and neighborhood satisfaction, while in the new urbanism neighborhood there is a strong relationship between neighborhood satisfaction and liking the building style of the neighborhood. Future research on the relationship between neighborhood design and neighborhood satisfaction could investigate the values and appreciation of the image of the surrounding environment of the residents.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Boumans, B.M. and Oosterhoff, A.T. |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2024 11:14 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2024 11:14 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4454 |
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