purpose: reconstruction programs have two approaches: in-situ reconstructions and relocation. different experiences around the world show little acceptance of relocation programs by people which new sites were left or did not return to their pre-boom. meanwhile, estalkhkooh village relocation program shows vice versa. villagers not only accept their new relocated village but also are trying to ...

PURPOSE This study examines the structural relationships between social activities and trajectories of late-life depression. DESIGN AND METHODS Latent class analysis was used with a nationally representative sample of older adults (N = 5,294) from the Longitudinal Study on Aging II to classify patterns of social activities. A latent growth curve model captured longitudinal changes in depressi...

One goal of the U.S. housing voucher program, as an alternative to public housing subsidies, is to help participants gain access to decent neighborhoods. I find that in a typical implementation of the program, participants in the housing voucher program live in better neighborhoods than public housing residents, but in lower-quality neighborhoods compared to unsubsidized households eligible for...

Modeling housing search behavior is a crucial component of land use modeling. Land use modeling from a specific point of view shares close ties with the transport system. As a result, housing search behavior has become an attractive research topic to travel demand modelers and continues to be a topic of interest to urban planners, geographers, and economists. This paper presents a conceptual fr...

Using data collected from qualitative interviews in 36 households, this article examines people's use of social relations based on gender to perform tasks associated with residential relocation in later life. Without prompting, our respondents addressed the social relations of gender in the meanings of things, in the persons of gift recipients, and in the persons of actors accomplishing the tas...

This paper is a further research of our Part 1 study on the social integration between local group and re-settler after village-to-village relocation projects for poverty alleviation. The classified resettlements in terms residential segregation into four types: centralized type, adjacent enclave infill type. It also evaluated compared isolation value (SO) spatial (SP) by typology group. In 2 s...