Deciding Where to Live

This book proposes, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, an original reading of current work on residential choice and the decisions associated with it. Geographers, social-psychologists, economists, sociologists, neurologists and linguists have worked together in the context of collective research into evaluation, choice and decision-making in the use of urban and periurban spaces. A synthetic outlook has been constructed from these complimentary scientific references. The book, which is designed as a handbook, also provides the opportunity to set out the different approaches to deal with the models which have been developed in this field.

Interdisciplinary study in social science, geography, psychology, economics, sociology, linguistics, medicine Cross-disciplinary work on residential choice from complementary scientific subject areas Multiscalar and multidimensional approach

Autorentext

Pierre Frankhauser has a doctoral degree in theoretical physics and in geography. He is full professor of geography at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon.
Dominique Ansel has a doctoral degree in psychology. He is associate professor at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon.

Inhalt
Individuals in Their Spatial and Social Environments.- The Wheres and Hows of Residential Choice.- Socio-Cognitive Accessibility to Places.- Affect, Uncertainty, and Decision-Making.- Neuroscience and Decision-Making.- Spatial Decision-Making.- Collective and Cooperative Behaviour Models.- Observing The Decision-Making Process.- Preferences, Utility, Choice, and Attractiveness.- Determinism, Probability, and Imprecision in Decision-Making.