participation of people in their cities and neighborhoods has always been emphasized by researchers and experts in order to improve the quality of citizens’ life and having efficient urban management. however, it seems that providing participation contexts at local level by citizens needs preparations and substrates that facilitate participation. in the meantime, establishing a neighborhood man...

Abstract Sustainable housing is one of the most important factors affecting quality life. This research focuses on (internal indicators), including (affordable housing, and conditions dwelling unit to live, (external indicators) social services, infrastructure, transport, identity, safety security, environmental pollution. was done by studying two residential areas in city Baghdad, which differ...

Life satisfaction correlates with adolescent risk taking behavior and their outcomes in adulthood. Despite the fast rise in numbers of Asian adolescents in the U.S., the predictors of their life satisfaction are not well understood. This study examined the relationship between several demographic and contextual factors and global life satisfaction among this population. Data were derived from t...

The objective of this study was to examine the association between individual satisfaction with social and physical surroundings and the habit of smoking cigarettes. Data from the Health Survey of Adults from the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, were used. Based on a probability sample, participants (n = 12,299) were selected among residents aged 20 years old or more. ...

Although it has become increasingly recognized that the spatial design of public space plays an important role in perceived quality built environment by users, there is still little known about influences specific attributes on individuals’ experiences. Therefore, this study aims at (1) identifying factors underlying momentary experiences given both cognitive (satisfaction) and affective (emoti...

The most important requirement of the family after food and clothing is housing. It also plays an important role in providing safety and security etc. for the family. Security is important therefore it is placed among other human physiological needs like food, shelter and sanitation. Security feeling is one of the main factorsin stability of urban spaces. It can be said that secure enviro...

In this article, I use data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Study to examine the residential selections that households and individuals make when they change residences and, in particular, the relationship between their choices and their socioeconomic status. I evaluate outcomes across neighborhoods grouped into deciles and quintiles of advantage and disadvantage, where the neighbo...

Based on literature review and five focus groups, a model was analyzed describing individual, social environmental and physical environmental (perceived) determinants of walking by older people. Aim was to test whether these determinants were significantly associated with the duration of walking by older people (N = 567, 50 80 years) in a middle-sized Dutch town. Walking time was best predicted...

We present an algorithm for use in an interactive music system that automatically generates music playlists that fit the music preferences given by a user. To this end, we introduce a formal model, define the problem of automatic playlist generation (APG) and indicate its NP-hardness. We use a local search (LS) procedure based on simulated annealing (SA) to solve the APG problem. In order to em...

In [8], Freuder defined interchangeability for classical Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Recently [2], we extended the definition of interchangeability to Soft CSPs and we introduced two notions of relaxation based on degradation δ and on threshold α (neighborhood interchangeability (NI )and α neighborhood interchangeability (αNI )). In this paper we extend the study introduced in [11]...