Determination of intra urban mobility dynamics: a model proposal

Residential mobility is a phenomenon in which individuals/households can shape first the residential areas and then the urban space, and the human-space interaction can be monitored through the choices of individuals/households to solve the quantitative and qualitative problems of residential areas. The multidimensional structure of the phenomenon, in which human intervention can be observed in the shaping of urban space, necessitates it to be handled from different perspectives and to be constantly discussed according to the changing time and context. This versatile and multidimensional requirement requires the past, present and future movements of individuals/households to be evaluated as a whole in the thesis study. From this point of view, the phenomenon has been handled in a comprehensive and original setup, with a holistic evaluation in which the effect of human on the urban space by means of residential mobility is revealed with a macro approach, and then the mobility is detailed with a micro approach up to the level of main reasons for the displacement of households. In the urban space shaped by the macro approach, it is aimed to reveal the individual/household and spatial-based reasons that cause housing mobility, the relationships between the reasons and the effect of the reasons on each other in a multidimensional process. Within the framework of the micro approach, the individual/household-related causes of mobility were revealed with life cycle/life-course factors. The reasons in the spatial dimension were revealed by the satisfaction factors at the smallest building block of the city, residential unit-micro, at the immediate surroundings of the residential unit-meso, and at the neighborhood-macro spatial scales. Cause and effect discussions of both real and perceived mobility were made on the basis of structural equation models that were set up with implicit variables developed in the context of life cycle, life course and satisfaction, cause-effect.