Scale, Factor Analyses, and Neighborhood Effects

How big is my neighborhood? Individual and contextual effects on perceptions of neighborhood scale.

Neighborhood is a social and geographic concept that plays an increasingly important role in research and practice that address disparities in health and well-being of populations. However, most studies of neighborhoods, as well as community initiatives geared toward neighborhood improvement, make simplifying assumptions about boundaries, often relying on census geography to operationalize the ...

Neighborhood Effects and Housing

Neighborhood Effects

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Very Large-Scale Neighborhood Search

Neighborhood search algorithms are often the most effective approaches available for solving partitioning problems, a difficult class of combinatorial optimization problems arising in many application domains including vehicle routing, telecommunications network design, parallel machine scheduling, location theory, and clustering. A critical issue in the design of a neighborhood search algorith...

Development and Psychometrics of "Social Sustainability Scale in Urban Neighborhood" in Zanjan City

Introduction: Social sustainability is one of the most important factors in urban planning and management, and it requires a valid and reliable instrument. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of development and psychometrics of "Social Sustainability Scale in Urban Neighborhood" in Zanjan city. Methods: The current research is a qualitative-quantitative methodology. At ...