Quality of Life in Cities (eBook, PDF)

Equity, Sustainable Development and Happiness from a Policy Perspective
Redaktion: Michelangeli, Alessandra

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to link quality of life to related issues such as sustainability, equity, and subjective well-being. In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317653615
• Artikelnr.: 42554680

Autorenporträt

Alessandra Michelangeli is Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS), University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Urbanization: an overview 2. The hedonic value of urban quality of life
3. Measuring urban quality of life: a life satisfaction approach 4. Cities,
equity and quality of life 5. Urban sustainability and individual/household
well-being 6. Agglomeration economies and urban location benefits: the
debate around the existence of an optimal city size