Investigating Quality of Urban Life Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research /
This volume synthesizes past and current, international research on the quality of urban life. It emphasizes the contributions of the urban environment to the overall well-being of residents living in urban areas ranging in scale from small cities and their hinterlands to metropolitan regions. The t...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2011.
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| Σειρά: | Social Indicators Research Series,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1. An overview of quality of urban life - Robert W. Marans, Robert Stimson
- Part I: Approaches to the study of quality of life and quality of urban life
- 2. Objective measurement of quality of life using secondary data analysis - Robert Stimson, Robert W. Marans
- 3. Subjective measurement of quality of life using primary data collection and the analysis of survey data - Rod McCrea, Robert W. Marans, Robert Stimson, John Western
- 4.The evolution of integrative approaches to the analysis of quality of urban life - Rod McCrea, Robert Stimson, Robert W. Marans
- Part II: Empirical studies of the objective measurement of quality of urban life
- 5. Amenities, quality of life and regional development - Gordon Mulligan, John Carruthers
- 6. Variations in objective quality of urban life across a city region: The case of Phoenix - Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Ying Cao
- Part III: Empirical studies of the subjective assessment of quality of urban life illustrated by a selection of case studies
- 7. The quality of life in metro Detroit at the beginning of the millennium - Robert W. Marans, Byoung-Suk Kweon
- 8. The Brisbane-South East Queensland region, Australia: Subjective assessment of quality of urban life and changes over time - Robert Stimson, Rod McCrea, John Western
- 9. Measuring quality of urban life in Istanbul - Handan Türkoğlu, Fulin Bölen, Perver Korça Baran, Fatih Terzi
- 10. The quality of urban life and neighbourhood satisfaction in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus - Derya Oktay, Ahmet Rustemli
- 11. The quality of life in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Neighbourhood quality as a major component of residential satisfaction - Abul Mukim Mozammel Haque Mridha, Gary Moore
- 12. The Salzburg quality of urban life study with GIS support - Alexander G. Keul, Thomas Prinz
- 13. Subjective quality of life in Queensland: Comparing metropolitan, regional, and rural areas - Rod McCrea, Mark Western, Tung-Kai Shyy
- 14. Comparing urban and rural quality of life in the State of Washington - Benjamin Messer, Don Dillman
- Part IV: Innovations in modelling quality of urban life data
- 15. Modelling determinants of subjective QOUL at different geographic scales: The case of the Brisbane-SEQ region” - Rod McCrea, John Western, and Robert Stimson
- 16. Disaggregating the measurement of quality of urban life dimensions across a complex metro region: the case of Metro Detroit - Byung-Suk Kweon, Robert W. Marans
- 17. A spatial clustering approach analysing types of objective quality of urban life using spatial data for survey respondents: South-East Queensland, Australia - Rod McCrea
- 18. Using GIS to derive region-wide patterns of quality of urban life dimensions: Illustrated with data from the Brisbane-SEQ region - Prem Chhetri, Robert Stimson, John Western
- The way forward
- 19. Challenges for quality of urban life research - Robert W. Marans, Robert Stimson.
