Abstract
This study investigates the residential location choice of knowledge-workers at the intra-metropolitan level by applying discrete choice models. The models represent housing choices of 833 knowledge-workers in high-technology and financial services and analyze the relative importance of lifestyle and cultural amenities in addition to classic location factors. Hence, the model bridges the gap between the recent lifestyle-oriented and the classical utility-oriented conceptualizations of the residential choice of knowledge-workers. The most important factors are municipal socioeconomic level, housing affordability and commuting time, while substantial secondary factors are cultural and educational land-use and culture-oriented lifestyle. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Cities |
| Volume | 35 |
| Pages (from-to) | 33-41 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISSN | 0264-2751 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2013 |
Keywords
- URBAN
- URBAN-DEVELOPMENT
- CREATIVE CLASS
- GROWTH
- ECONOMY
- CITIES
- SPACE
- MODEL
- CITY
- Residential choice
- Location model
- Discrete choice models
- Lifestyle
- Knowledge-workers
- affordable housing
- discrete choice analysis
- journey to work
- knowledge
- location decision
- metropolitan area
- residential location
- socioeconomic conditions
- workplace
