Exploring residential satisfaction in shrinking cities: a decision-tree approach |
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| Authors: | Ana Paula Barreira Dora Agapito Thomas Panagopoulos Maria Helena Guimarães |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (CIEO), University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal;2. Landscape Dynamics and Social Processes Group, Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterranicas (ICAAM), University of évora, évora, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | The number of cities experiencing population decline has been increasing worldwide. Despite the existence of theoretical propositions of shrinkage as an opportunity to increase levels of residential satisfaction, the issue has not been addressed empirically. This article contributes to fill this gap by assessing, through survey, the residential satisfaction of inhabitants of four shrinking Portuguese cities. Data were analysed by means of a tree-decision approach: the Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection analysis. A sense of safety is the feature that best discriminates inhabitants’ level of residential satisfaction. The results show that shrinkage due to deindustrialisation processes is detrimental to residential satisfaction. |
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| Keywords: | residential satisfaction population decline shrinking cities city features tree-based approach |
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