Understanding Residential Location Choices and Housing Search

Title: Understanding Residential Location Choices and Housing Search
Identifier: d_2009_2013:f9d16a28eeea:11333
identifier: 11736
Creator: Lin, Haiyun,
Contributor: Claire E. McKnight
Date: 2012
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Civil engineering
Abstract: In this dissertation, two questions that relate to residential location choices and housing search are answered. For residential location choices, drawn upon the life course theory, residential self-selection was unpacked by examining the roles of involuntary past location experiences on later location choices. For housing search, drawn upon concepts of mental map and awareness space, the impacts of housing supply, households' preferences, and the use of different information channels as well as their interactions on the extent of a spatial search for housing were examined.;This research contributes to the existing literature by demonstrating a life-long, cumulative evolution of one's location preference and probing into the formation of a search space for housing. It also has practical significance---the insights gained from this research help us build better specified residential location choice models and construct more realistic choice sets of housing alternatives.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Engineering