Subjective Assessments of Neighborhood Quality by Size of Place

Donald C. Dahmann
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Donald C. Dahmann: Center for Demographic Studies, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington D.C. 20233

Urban Studies, 1983, vol. 20, issue 1, 31-45

Abstract: Objective indicators suggest that numerous aspects of the quality of residential environments decline with increasing size of place. As human responses to the environment are based in part on perceptions and evaluations of conditions rather than their objective status, subjective indicators should also be considered in assessing the quality of residential environments in different-sized places. A series of subjective response measures for a full range of urban places in the United States show that (1) the perceived overall quality of neighborhoods declines with increasing size of place, even when controlled for subjective responses to individual local conditions, (2) most of the surveyed local deficiencies are reported to be more widespread in larger cities, (3) the intensity of responses to conditions depicting deterioration of the built environment and public safety increase more rapidly with city size than do responses to traffic-transportation conditions, (4) there appears to be a breakpoint in the general decline of neighborhood quality between large and extremely large urban centers, and the suggestion that residential quality in the smallest urban places is not as good as in places of over 10,000 population.

Date: 1983
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