TY - JOUR

T1 - Rethinking how built environments influence subjective well-being: a new conceptual framework

AU - Mouratidis, Kostas

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This paper aims to contribute to understanding the role of the built environment in subjective well-being (SWB). The paper presents a new conceptual framework that integrates and links together: (a) different sets of objective and perceived neighborhood characteristics, (b) different perspectives on SWB – hedonic, life satisfaction, and eudaimonic, and (c) mediating factors that explain how neighborhood characteristics influence SWB. These mediating factors are personal relationships, leisure activities, health, and neighborhood impact on emotions and mood. SWB can be a new powerful tool for planning and designing livable built environments and for evaluating the social sustainability of planning policies.

AB - This paper aims to contribute to understanding the role of the built environment in subjective well-being (SWB). The paper presents a new conceptual framework that integrates and links together: (a) different sets of objective and perceived neighborhood characteristics, (b) different perspectives on SWB – hedonic, life satisfaction, and eudaimonic, and (c) mediating factors that explain how neighborhood characteristics influence SWB. These mediating factors are personal relationships, leisure activities, health, and neighborhood impact on emotions and mood. SWB can be a new powerful tool for planning and designing livable built environments and for evaluating the social sustainability of planning policies.

U2 - 10.1080/17549175.2017.1310749

DO - 10.1080/17549175.2017.1310749

M3 - Journal article

VL - 11

SP - 24

EP - 40

JO - Journal of Urbanism

JF - Journal of Urbanism

SN - 1754-9175

IS - 1

ER -