New Directions for Residential Mobility Research: Linking Lives through Time and Space While researchers are increasingly reconceptualising international migration, less interest is being shown in rethinking the geographies of short-distance residential mobility and immobility. Short-distance moves are crucial for the structuration of everyday life, the operation of housing and labour markets a...

The development of modern housing has been accompanied by less attention paid to the versatility and the variation of the living spaces. The quality of residential spaces has declined to a degree that the home has merely become a place to meet physical needs and many psychological problems have been neglected. Recognizing the factors affecting the environmental capabilities of today’s housing a...

As a consequence of the ongoing growth in demand for houses in the Netherlands over recent decades, the fraction of the total surface used for residential purposes has expanded rapidly. The location patterns of new residential construction are the result of various forces: government intervention aiming at the preservation of open space via zoning, new-town, and `compact-city' policies, and mar...

Residential areas show plenty of texture information on high resolution remotely sensed imagery. Appropriate description about this texture information for discriminating residential class and its background is a key problem for improving the classification results. Method for selecting proper texture parameters is presented in this paper. Based on the analysis of residential texture, grey leve...

Relatively few studies examine the relationship between racial residential segregation and educational or cognitive outcomes. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the institutional resources model of neighborhood effects, I investigate one account of how macrostructural arrangements between race, neighborhood segregation, and school quality interact to produc...

Abstract Activity spaces are used to capture patterns in urban mobility and portray the spatial distribution of day-to-day activities. The literature exploring variation individual activity identifies strong associations between several space characteristics built environment residential location. This cross-sectional study adds this evidence by examining whether these persist after adjusting f...

Energy consumed the in urban sector accounts for a large proportion of total world delivered energy consumption. Residential building energy consumption is an important part of urban energy consumption. However, there are few studies focused on this issue and that have simulated the energy consumption of residential buildings using questionnaire data. In this research, an eQUEST study was condu...

nowadays we are living in a situation that houses are looked as a profitable product and as an economic need for families, instead of being a place for tranquillity. in the other word, home which is generally a place of residence is now replaced by shelter. in the other hand, people need to have tranquillity, sense of security in private life and respected territory; so organization of living e...