Lifestyles and the city: Connecting daily life to urbanity

Abstract

Urban households are part of what makes a city a city: economically, because of their labour market participation and use of urban facilities; and socially, because of their participation in public life. In turn, these urban households profit from what the city has to offer. In this paper, a household typology is constructed according to type and extent of 'urban connectedness'. Urban connectedness is not identified as people's stated preference but rather as people's revealed relationship with the urban society through their residential choices. Subsequently, the urban orientation of these household types is explored. Empirical data are obtained for the city of Amsterdam. © The Author(s) 2009.