An Evaluation on Residential Satisfaction in Historic Urban Quarters: The Case of the Walled City, Famagusta
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Abstract
This study aims to evaluate residential satisfaction in historic urban quarters which are\ncharacterized by relatively higher architectural, cultural, and aesthetic values than nonhistoric areas. Nevertheless, historic urban quarters threat more by significant physical\nand social decay and undesirable environment, functional and physical obsolescence,\nand poor-quality buildings, material and constructions. These challenges lead to reduce\nthe satisfactions’ levels of residents who live in historic urban quarters as their\ncontemporary needs are not provided and living standards are usually lower.\nConsequently, to achieve this aim, this study provides extensively a list of factors on\nthe basis of social, environment, economic, and culture dimensions to evaluate\nresidential satisfaction within the contextual provisions of historic urban quarter of\nWalled City, Famagusta. Besides, this study collected 245 questionnaires from\nhouseholds residing in the historic urban quarters of the Walled City, Famagusta and\nalso 167 households residing outside of the quarters to assess their perception of the\nidentified factors, as well as examine the agreement levels in the opinions of the two\nparticipant groups. This study also used the mix method including both the qualitative\nand quantitative approaches to identify important factors of satisfaction based on\nresident’s perception, expectations, and experiences. Using principal component\nanalysis (PCA), the results show that eight factors are only important from residents’\nperceptions. Findings show that from the economic dimension, “Cost of housing”,\n“Tenure options” and “Cost of living within the Walled City” are the most important\nfactors of satisfaction. From the social dimension, results showed the “Suitable\nmanagement rules”, “Security/safety concerns” and “Level of social mix in housing\nenvironment” are the most important factors of satisfaction. From the environment\ndimension, results showed the “Open spaces and green areas” is the most important\nfactor of satisfaction. From the culture dimension, results showed the “Suitability of\nhousing to occupant’s culture” is the most important factor of satisfaction. The\nfindings of this study will help to better understand the residents’ perceptions,\nexpectations and experiences in historic urban quarter of the Walled City, Famagusta\nand are useful to housing policy decision-makers, urban planners, and municipalities\nto improve residential environments in line with the contemporary needs and\nexpectations of residents. The results of this study also provide some insights that\ncontribute to residential satisfaction literature as it opens a new window for further\nstudies to test and apply the important factors in a case-study based survey of other\nhistoric houses and urban areas. Furthermore, it can be considered a crucial step in the\nsustainable development process, as identifying the determinants of residential\nsatisfaction helps to satisfy the contemporary needs of residents in physically degraded\nand urban fabric deteriorated historical environments.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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