Investigating Place Attitudes in Santa Barbara, CA
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Geography
- Degree Supervisor:
- Konstadinos G. Goulias
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2015
- Issued Date:
- 2015
- Topics:
- Geographic information science and geodesy, Urban planning, and Geography
- Keywords:
- Place,
Urban Geography, and
Twitter - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- M.A.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015
- Description:
This thesis investigates the relationship between place attitudes and measurable place attributes in Santa Barbara, CA. People's relationships to places form a key component of travel behavior and decision making, but they have been the subject of limited empirical study. In addition to improving our understanding of place attitudes, I investigate appropriate ways to model a cross-classified dataset with spatially autocorrelated ordinal responses. Data sources include a spatially constrained place attitudes survey, parcel-based land use, business establishment records, and a collection of local geotagged Tweets, from which a spatial measure of happiness was extracted. The relationships among these variables are investigated using a cross-classified multilevel ordinal regression model, which finds several significant relationships between place attitudes and available opportunities, land use, and natural amenities. I also find that while Twitter data may provide another way to measure place attitudes, more work is needed to develop useful variables from it.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (120 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10011410
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3v1249b
- ISBN:
- 9781339472393
- Catalog System Number:
- 990046179630203776
- Copyright:
- Adam Davis, 2015
- Rights:
In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Adam Davis
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