Sustainability and residential satisfaction within exclusive residential complexes in the city of rome

Abstract EN

This study aims at investigating residential satisfaction and attachment, perception of environmental quality and residential needs / expectancies in residents of peculiar urban residential complexes in the city of Rome., which can be classified at an intermediate level between the “gated communities” and the “communities of services”.

Taking into account two levels of environmental scale (i.e., residential complex and apartment) a questionnaire was built on and administered to a sample of residents (N = 101) in two residential complexes.

Perceived Residential Environment Quality Indicators (PREQIs), residential attachment, residential satisfaction toward the complex and the apartment, and expected satisfaction toward possible additional features (at a residential complex and apartment levels) were measured.

Findings highlight the wishes of residential security (at residential complex level), technological systems which match sustainability criteria, and domotics (at apartment level).

Six well-defined clusters of residents were discriminated on the basis of their evaluative responses.