Mixed land use has opposite associations with subjective well-being through social capital: Spatial heterogeneity in residential and workplace neighborhoods

Mixed land use (MLU) is recognized as a crucial means for urban planners to facilitate residents’ subjective well-being (SWB). However, prior research has rarely explored the mediating effect of social capital on the MLU-SWB association and has overlooked the possibility that this association may be subject to spatial heterogeneity between residential and workplace neighborhoods. Based on a sample of 1028 survey participants in Shanghai from 2018 to 2019, a structural equation model is used to investigate the associations among MLU, social capital, and SWB in residential and workplace neighborhoods. The authors find that MLU has a negative and indirect association with SWB by decreasing social capital in residential neighborhoods, while it has a positive and indirect association with SWB by enhancing social capital in workplace neighborhoods with adjustments for other built environmental and sociodemographic attributes. That is, MLU has opposite associations with SWB mediated by social capital. Therefore, policymakers need to adopt different strategies to optimize MLU in residential and workplace neighborhoods to facilitate social capital and SWB.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tbs.2023.100724
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X23001758
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/2214367X
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2023 Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Yin, Chun
  • 0000-0002-1539-049X
  • Liu, Jiahang
  • Dai, Shaoqing
  • 0000-0003-0858-4728
  • Sun, Bindong
• Publication Date: 2024-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 100724
• Serial:
  • Travel Behaviour and Society
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2214-367X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2214367X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Land use; Mixed use development; Neighborhoods; Residential areas; Workplaces
• Geographic Terms: Shanghai (China)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01904287
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 9 2024 9:09AM