Deciding Where to Live

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This book proposes, from a cross-disciplinary perspective, an original reading of current work on residential choice and the decisions associated with it. Geographers, social-psychologists, economists, sociologists, neurologists and linguists have worked together in the context of collective research into evaluation, choice and decision-making in the use of urban and periurban spaces. A synthetic outlook has been constructed from these complementary scientific references. The book, which is designed as a handbook, also provides the opportunity to set out the different approaches to deal with the models which have been developed in this field.Contents• Individuals in Their Spatial and Social Environments • The Wheres and Hows of Residential Choice• Socio-Cognitive Accessibility to Places• Affect, Uncertainty, and Decision-Making• Neuroscience and Decision-Making• Spatial Decision-Making• Collective and Cooperative Behaviour Models• Observing The Decision-Making Process• Preferences, Utility, Choice, and Attractiveness• Determinism, Probability, and Imprecision in Decision-MakingTarget Groups• Lecturers and students of social science, geography and psychology• Social actors and decision-makers involved in regional development About the EditorsPierre Frankhauser has a doctoral degree in theoretical physics and in geography. He is full professor of geography at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon.Dominique Ansel has a doctoral degree  in psychology. He is associate professor at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon.