The Effects on Neighborhood Environments during Lockdowns: Being Comfortable in Residences

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors, 

Thank you very much for choosing such an interesting topic. Yet, much work should be exerted to proofread the manuscript as there are numerous linguistic flaws. Also, tables, figures and graphs can be modified to increase its quality. 

Best of luck

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Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Title: The title should consist of the concepts of the study, the industry or context, and the methodology used in the study.

Keywords: The author should add one more keyword related to the methodology

Introduction: The introduction lacks references. The authors should explain the research gap or the debate in this section.

Literature review:

               Figure 1: there are some typos in the figure

Built environment indicators:

Line 92-93à Do these indicators belong to neighborhood satisfaction or built environment indicators? Because I found a difference between what is available in figure 1 and what is explained in this section. In figure 1, the built environment indicators consist of land use mix, housing density, and availability of public parks. The land-use patterns, transportation, and design features are compared to the build environment indicators in lines 92-93. Which is correct, the indicators in figure 1 or lines 92-93?

I am afraid that the authors are mistaken in adopting figure 1. Please read and see the same figure in reference number 6.

 

Line 105-108à What is the relevance of this statement for this study? The authors stated that housing density is related to residential satisfaction, and in the same section, the authors mentioned that other factors affect the residents' satisfaction level. These other factors are not even mentioned in the figure, then why should the authors mention another study that weakens their statement? I suggest that the inconsistencies of prior studies' findings should be highlighted in the introduction section as the research gap.

 

Transportation:

Line 119-120 à I believe that the notion of this statement was taken from a prior study (reference number 6) so please add the citation for this statement.

 

Discussion & Conclusions

              

I try to understand the consistency of the title, the aims, the literature review, the result, and the discussion in the manuscript. The title is "The Effect…" the objective of this study is to investigate the satisfaction level of university students at neighborhood and residential levels during the Covid‐19 lockdown. This study also aims to measure the travel time they used to take to commute to their universities before the Covid‐19 lockdown and the effects of the daily commute, or lack thereof, on their satisfaction levels. Finally, the study measures distance learning experience and satisfaction during COVID-19 (lines 201-207). The discussion is more descriptive rather than explaining the effect. There is/are missing link(s) in this study. The discussion section does not explain the effect. In addition, the authors do not explain the relationship between neighborhood satisfaction and online education satisfaction. Is higher satisfaction in the neighborhood lead to high satisfaction in online education? If the standing point of the authors is that neighborhood leads to satisfaction in online education, the authors should add the rationale in the literature review section and then compare the result of the study with the rationale in the literature review, whether the result confirms the debate or not. Furthermore, the authors need to add the limitation and the future study suggestion at the end of the discussion and conclusions section.

 

 

 

Author Response

Response is attached for reviewer 2

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have done well with the revisions. one last comment:

What are the implications of this research? Who befits from this finding that is kind of old according to the author's comments in the last paragraph: "This was a cross-sectional study conducted in the first year of the pandemic."

 

Author Response

The findings of this research will contribute to the body of knowledge in the fields of neighborhood planning as well as educational planning. It is hoped that ongoing research, including the present study, in these areas will make humanity progressively better prepared for future pandemics such as COVID-19.

The above lines have also been added to the manuscript.

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