Can People Value the Aesthetic and Use Services of Urban Sites? Evidence from a Survey of Belfast Residents Export

@article{citeulike:3837826, abstract = {This study explores the potential of conjoint choice experiments for planning decisions on urban sites. We elicit people's preferences for regeneration projects that change the aesthetic and use character of specified urban sites. We use a split-sample design with two sets of regeneration projects. The first entails hypothetical transformations of an actual square with an important cultural and historical dimension. The other consists of hypothetical transformations of an abstract square which we try to make as close as possible to the former in all respects, except for its cultural and historical dimension. Each regeneration project is defined by aesthetic and use attributes. Our results suggest that individual choices are explained by the attributes, andthat the marginal utilities are significantly different across projects forthe actual and the abstract square.}, author = {Alberini, Anna and Riganti, Patrizia and Longo, Alberto}, citeulike-article-id = {3837826}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026317209968}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m83hv18362k63352}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1023/A:1026317209968}, journal = {Journal of Cultural Economics}, keywords = {aesthetic, economics, landscape}, month = {November}, number = {3}, pages = {193--213}, posted-at = {2008-12-31 04:19:16}, priority = {0}, title = {Can People Value the Aesthetic and Use Services of Urban Sites? Evidence from a Survey of Belfast Residents}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026317209968}, volume = {27}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3837826 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3837826 N2 - This study explores the potential of conjoint choice experiments for planning decisions on urban sites. We elicit people's preferences for regeneration projects that change the aesthetic and use character of specified urban sites. We use a split-sample design with two sets of regeneration projects. The first entails hypothetical transformations of an actual square with an important cultural and historical dimension. The other consists of hypothetical transformations of an abstract square which we try to make as close as possible to the former in all respects, except for its cultural and historical dimension. Each regeneration project is defined by aesthetic and use attributes. Our results suggest that individual choices are explained by the attributes, andthat the marginal utilities are significantly different across projects forthe actual and the abstract square. IS - 3 JF - Journal of Cultural Economics EP - 213 TI - Can People Value the Aesthetic and Use Services of Urban Sites? Evidence from a Survey of Belfast Residents VL - 27 SP - 193 KW - aesthetic KW - economics KW - landscape AU - Alberini, Anna AU - Riganti, Patrizia AU - Longo, Alberto PY - 2003/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026317209968 ER -