By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US
This article analyses the travel behaviour, residential choices and related preferences of 55+ baby boomers in suburban Boston, USA, looking specifically at age-restricted neighbourhoods. For this highly auto-dependent group, do neighbourhood-related characteristics influence local-level recreationa...
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| author | Zegras, P. Christopher Lee, Jae Seung Ben-Joseph, Eran |
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| description | This article analyses the travel behaviour, residential choices and related preferences of 55+ baby boomers in suburban Boston, USA, looking specifically at age-restricted neighbourhoods. For this highly auto-dependent group, do neighbourhood-related characteristics influence local-level recreational walk/bike and social activity trip-making? The analysis aims to discern community (for example, social network) versus physical (for example, street network) influences. Structural equation models, incorporating attitudes and residential choice, are used to control for self-selection and to account for direct and indirect effects among exogenous and endogenous variables. The analysis reveals modest neighbourhood effects. Living in age-restricted, as opposed to unrestricted, suburban neighbourhoods modestly increases the likelihood of residents being active (i.e. making at least one local recreational walk/bike trip) and the number of local social trips. Overall, the age-restricted community status has greater influence on recreational and social activity trip-making than the neighbourhood physical characteristics, although some community–neighbourhood interaction exists. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/881962022-09-27T15:52:19Z By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US Zegras, P. Christopher Lee, Jae Seung Ben-Joseph, Eran Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Zegras, P. Christopher Lee, Jae Seung Ben-Joseph, Eran This article analyses the travel behaviour, residential choices and related preferences of 55+ baby boomers in suburban Boston, USA, looking specifically at age-restricted neighbourhoods. For this highly auto-dependent group, do neighbourhood-related characteristics influence local-level recreational walk/bike and social activity trip-making? The analysis aims to discern community (for example, social network) versus physical (for example, street network) influences. Structural equation models, incorporating attitudes and residential choice, are used to control for self-selection and to account for direct and indirect effects among exogenous and endogenous variables. The analysis reveals modest neighbourhood effects. Living in age-restricted, as opposed to unrestricted, suburban neighbourhoods modestly increases the likelihood of residents being active (i.e. making at least one local recreational walk/bike trip) and the number of local social trips. Overall, the age-restricted community status has greater influence on recreational and social activity trip-making than the neighbourhood physical characteristics, although some community–neighbourhood interaction exists. New England University Transportation Center (Grant DTRS99-G-0001) 2014-07-08T17:09:01Z 2014-07-08T17:09:01Z 2012-01 2011-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0042-0980 1360-063X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88196 Zegras, C., J. S. Lee, and E. Ben-Joseph. “By Community or Design? Age-Restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers’ Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US.” Urban Studies 49, no. 10 (August 1, 2012): 2169–2198. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3581-7830 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9087-5975 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098011429485 Urban Studies Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Sage Publications MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Zegras, P. Christopher Lee, Jae Seung Ben-Joseph, Eran By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US |
| title | By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US |
| title_full | By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US |
| title_fullStr | By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US |
| title_full_unstemmed | By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US |
| title_short | By Community or Design? Age-restricted Neighbourhoods, Physical Design and Baby Boomers' Local Travel Behaviour in Suburban Boston, US |
| title_sort | by community or design age restricted neighbourhoods physical design and baby boomers local travel behaviour in suburban boston us |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88196 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3581-7830 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9087-5975 |
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