Residential environmental satisfaction, social capital, and place attachment: the case of Seoul, Korea
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Residential environmental satisfaction, social capital, and place attachment: the case of Seoul, Korea Kyung‑Young Lee1 · Moon‑Gi Jeong2 Received: 30 December 2019 / Accepted: 25 August 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract This study examines the relationship between residential environmental satisfaction, social capital, and place attachment. Previous studies on place attachment and residential environments have not fully considered the components of residential environments or executed an integrated analysis. This study includes diverse aspects of residential environmental satisfaction such as accessibility, comfort, and safety, which permits a comparison of the influence of each element. Furthermore, this study examined the mediating effect of social capital between residential environments and place attachment. Online surveys were conducted with 750 residents in the metropolitan city of Seoul, Korea, and mediation regression analysis as employed. The results indicated that residential environmental satisfaction had a positive effect on place attachment. In particular, accessibility had the greatest effect on place attachment. Furthermore, social capital had a mediating effect on all sub-components of residential environments. Today, many countries, including China and India, pursue and experience rapid urbanization much like Seoul, which has undergone it over several decades. However, this causes a variety of urban problems that might hinder long-term sustainable development. Therefore, this study suggests that the importance of qualitative development for sustainability should be recognized and incorporated together with quantitative development. Keywords Mediation effect · Place attachment · Residential environmental satisfaction · Seoul · Social capital
* Moon‑Gi Jeong [email protected] Kyung‑Young Lee [email protected] 1
Graduate School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Department of Public Administration and Graduate School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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K.-Y. Lee, M.-G. Jeong
1 Introduction Urban development can be understood in terms of quantitative aspects, including an increase in population and economic size, and in qualitative aspects, including an increase in quality of life and activation of the local community. Desirable cities can be realized only when these two aspects are harmonized (Song and Yim 2015). However, urban management has so far prioritized quantitative growth rather than qualitative growth, and efficiency rather than equity. This has been due to the “trickle-down effect,” indicating that only when material fulfillment is achieved can the benefit be returned to the entire society (Akinci 2018; Song and Yim 2015). As a result, many cities have observed a remarkable quantitative performance, but various problems and concerns have arisen in qualitative terms, including “deterioration in the quality of life” and “residents’ indifference”. As a consequence, urban policies these da
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