ABSTRACT

Neighborhood characteristics increase human well-being and happiness and is becoming a key criterion for residential location decisions nowadays. This paper proposes a tool to measure neighborhood characteristics, especially those that increase its sustainability, and to rank neighborhoods based on different residents’ profiles. The proposed ranking procedure, based on multiple decision criteria, combines the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) with a method that assigns preference weights to different Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) profiles. In order to illustrate the suitability and properties of the proposed framework, the case of a medium-sized city in northern Spain is presented. Five different resident or family profiles are defined and the different residential locations are ranked taking into account different sustainability neighborhood criteria. The obtained relative proximity index can be interpreted as an adequacy index in terms of neighborhood quality of live and sustainability. The proposed procedure can be a very valuable tool for real estate agents, construction companies or urban planners. All of them can make different uses of the tool, either to provide a service better adapted to the client or, in the case of urban planners and managers, to make projections and evaluate alternatives or ex-ante policies.

摘要

邻里特征增加了人类的幸福感和幸福感，并已成为当今决定居住地点的关键标准。本文提出了一种工具来测量邻里特征，尤其是那些增加其可持续性的特征，并根据不同居民的概况对邻里进行排名。拟议的排名程序基于多个决策标准，将“基于与理想解决方案相似度的订单偏好技术”（TOPSIS）与为不同的分析层次结构（AHP）配置文件分配偏好权重的方法相结合。为了说明所提出框架的适用性和属性，以西班牙北部的中型城市为例。定义了五个不同的居民或家庭资料，并根据不同的可持续性邻里标准对不同的居民区进行了排名。可以将获得的相对接近度指数解释为就居住环境质量和可持续性而言的充分性指数。对于房地产经纪人，建筑公司或城市规划人员而言，建议的程序可能是非常有价值的工具。他们都可以使用该工具的不同用途，以提供更适合客户的服务，或者对于城市规划人员和管理人员而言，可以进行预测并评估替代方案或事前政策。对于房地产经纪人，建筑公司或城市规划人员而言，建议的程序可能是非常有价值的工具。他们都可以使用该工具的不同用途，以提供更适合客户的服务，或者对于城市规划人员和管理人员而言，可以进行预测并评估替代方案或事前政策。对于房地产经纪人，建筑公司或城市规划人员而言，建议的程序可能是非常有价值的工具。他们都可以使用该工具的不同用途，以提供更适合客户的服务，或者对于城市规划人员和管理人员而言，可以进行预测并评估替代方案或事前政策。