Residential satisfaction and perceived urban quality

The quality of the urban environment, and of the residential environment in particular, is one of the main components of people's overall quality of life. Global satisfaction with people's own residential environment has both affective and cognitive components. On the one hand, people experience feelings with respect to their own houses/neighborhoods (ie, place attachment); on the other hand, they assess the degree of quality for each different feature of their own houses/neighborhoods (ie, residential quality). Knowing residential satisfaction, residential attachment, and residential quality with reference to the inhabitants of a specific place can help its design, management, and policy