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Research Article

Understanding the effects of urban perceptions on housing rent using big data and machine learning

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Pages 964-980 | Received 31 May 2023, Accepted 04 Jul 2023, Published online: 14 Jul 2023
 

ABSTRACT

Urban perceptions are related to residents’ subjective well-being, activities, settlement choice, and physical and mental health, which are vital for promoting sustainable community development. Landsenses ecology proposes the concepts of physical and psychological perceptions to measure the interaction between humans and the urban environment. However, such perceptions and their quantitative relationships with housing rental prices (HRPs) are still not clear. In this study, a novel urban-perception-oriented hedonic price model (UP-HPM) is proposed based on the construction of a multisource geographic database of Beijing’s rental market with rich information on people-oriented perception metrics, neighborhood environment characteristics, and HRPs. Furthermore, we use advanced machine learning (ML) pipelines to measure residents’ multidimensional urban perceptions and investigate their impact on block-level HRPs and their spatial disparities. We also quantify and compare the contribution of different physical and psychological perceptual attributes to HRPs through UP-HPM. The results show that neighborhood perceived greenery and the use of fences tend to bring about positive psychological perceptions and further affect HRPs. By comparing different combinations of hedonic and perceptual features, the UP-HPM performs well in terms of fitting capacity, spatial description, and interpretability and can inspire humanistic thinking and landsenses planning guidelines for the regulation of the allocation of public rental housing and improvement in block-level physical settings and infrastructure services, thereby providing insights into how best to promote residents’ quality of life and well-being.

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFB3903702), the State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology Open Fund (SKLURE2022-2-5), and the High-Resolution Earth Observation System Project (20-Y30F10-9001-20/22). Special thanks to the GeoHey Company (geohey.com) for providing the Beijing block data. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions regarding this paper.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article.

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2023.2234332

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