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9789971692278

Urban Quality of Life : Critical Issues and Options

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    9789971692278

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    9971692279

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-05-01
  • Publisher: Coronet Books Inc
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Preface xiii
Quality of Life in Cities---Definition, Approaches and Research
1(12)
Lim Lan Yuan
Belinda Yuen
Christine Low
Quality of Life, Place and the Global City
13(19)
Robert J. Rogerson
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale---Fifth Edition
32(15)
Robert A. Cummins
Can City QOL Indicators be Objective and Relevant? Towards a Tool for Sustaining Urban Development
47(16)
Josef Leitmann
Benchmarking Melbourne: Indicators of Liveability and Competitiveness
63(18)
Tammy Stokie
Studies on Quality of Life of Singaporeans
81(18)
Foo Tuan Seik
Belinda Yuen
Lawrence Chin
Stability and Change of Subjective Indicators of Urban Quality of Life in Switzerland
99(20)
Emil Walter-Busch
Community Indicator Projects: Practical Tools for Addressing Quality of Life in Communities
119(24)
Kate Besleme
Elisa Maser
David Swain
Urban Metabolism as a Framework for Investigating Quality of Life and Sustainable Development in the Brisbane-Southeast Queensland Metro Region
143(26)
Robert J. Stimson
John Western
Patrick Mullins
Rod Simpson
Using Person-Environment Perspectives as a measure of the Quality of Life in Formal and Informal Settlements: A Case Study from Trinidad
169(27)
David Brown
Putting Quality of Life to the Test
196(16)
Ole Elstrup Rasmussen
Strategy, Change and Performance Measurement Systems---An Integrated Framework
212(24)
Dag Naslund
Gunnar Ericson
Justifying Urban Quality: An Ethics Approach
236
Stephen Schwenke

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