Attitudes Towards Compact City Living: Towards a Greater Understanding of Residential Behaviour

摘要

The residential preferences and behaviour of residents were analyzed. An increasing emphasis placed on planning systems in most advanced capitalist societies to develop a more sustainable development pattern, resulting in policies to increase residential densities was witnessed in the recent years. The results showed that 65 percent of respondents stated that either accessibility, access to services and facilities, access to amenities or access to work was the main benefit of urban living. It was concluded that in family life cycle stage, as younger respondents and those living in multi occupancy dwellings had a much higher probability of moving in the next 5 years than relatively older respondents and those living by themselves.