In order to overcome the housing shortage, a large number of apartments were built in South Korea during the second half of the 20th century. Thus, the apartments became the typical housing type in South Korea. This paper is intended to analyze the changes in the spatial configurations of the apartments constructed in Cheongju, South Korea, from the 1972 to 2000. This study has employed Space S...

In the U.S., homeownership is strongly correlated with the type of building that households occupy. Data from the national American Housing Survey (AHS) indicate that 83 percent of occupied single-family, detached housing in the U.S. is owner-occupied while only 12 percent of units in multifamily buildings are owner-occupied. This paper fills a gap in the homeownership literature by considering...

This paper examines the influence of residential zoning and subdivision regulations on the extent and distribution of impervious land cover in Madison, WI. Specifically, an analysis of approximately 40,000 single-family residential parcels in the Madison region is presented to assess the impact of land development regulations governing lot size, lot frontage, front yard setbacks, street width, ...

The sensitivity of spatial analytic results to the way in which the areal units are defined is known as the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). Although to date a general solution to the problem does not yet exist, it has been suggested in the literature that the effects of the problem may be controllable within specific application contexts. The current study pursues this line of inquiry and...

As the Malaysian residential electricity consumption continued to increase rapidly, effective energy policies, which address factors affecting residential electricity consumption, is urgently needed. This study attempts to investigate the relationship between residential electricity consumption (EC), real disposable income (Y), price of electricity (Pe) and population (Po) in Malaysia for 1978-...

To understand how to create a stabile workforce achieving excellent quality of care and patient safety, associations between practice environments and nurse and patient outcomes have been widely studied in acute and psychiatric care hospitals. Knowing residential aged care services are challenged to tackle complex patients’ needs within certain working conditions, to what extent do nurses perce...