City Life: Rankings (Livability) Versus Perceptions (Satisfaction)

Okulicz-Kozaryn, Adam

doi:10.1007/s11205-011-9939-x

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“…Housing prices in the centre of Madrid, for instance, were found to negatively correlate with subjective measures of air quality and noise butunexpectedlypositively with objective measures of air pollutants (Chasco and Le Gallo, 2013). Okulicz-Kozaryn (2013) found only moderate correlation between cities' Mercer 1 liveability index and residents' satisfaction with the city. McCrea et al (2006) found only weak correlation between objective measures of population density and subjective perception of overcrowding, and between objectively assessed and subjectively perceived access to facilities.…”

Section: Ueq Dimensions and Spatial Scalementioning

confidence: 88%

On the Necessity of an Integrated, Participative and Adaptive Approach to Sustainable Urban Environmental Quality Planning

2017

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On the necessity of an integrated, participative and adaptive approach to urban environmental quality in planning sustainable cities Key words: urban environmental quality; urban quality of life; sustainable urban development; trade-offs; quality dimensions. Rien van Stigt, Peter Driessen and Tejo Spit AbstractBased on a review of recent literature, this paper addresses the question of how urban planners can steer urban environmental quality, given the fact that it is multidimensional in character, is assessed largely in subjective terms and varies across time. A novel perspective of urban environmental quality is proposed, exploring three questions that are at the core of planning and designing cities: 'quality of what?', 'quality for whom?' and 'quality at what time?' The dilemmas that urban planners face in answering these questions are illustrated using secondary material. The three questions provide a framework that offers urban planners perspectives for action in finding their way out of the dilemmas identified. Rather than further detailing the exact nature of urban quality, this novel perspective calls for an approach to urban planning that is integrated, participative and adaptive.

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Section: Ueq Dimensions and Spatial Scalementioning

confidence: 88%

On the Necessity of an Integrated, Participative and Adaptive Approach to Sustainable Urban Environmental Quality Planning

2017

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“…Although no conclusive evidence was found to support the superiority of either type of indicator over the other in terms of validity and reliability [19], there has been criticism of the universality of objective indicators such as livability indexes. The problem is that livability actually stands for something different to different people, while the livability indexes, produced through assigning weights to the objective characteristics, are artificial constructs figured up by experts based on some normative ideals [24]. For urban residents, urban environment quality is a behavior-related function of the interaction between the characteristics of both people and environment rather than an inherent attribute of the objective environment [19], which means that people's judgement about the environment have more influence on the perception of environmental quality than the objective characteristics [25].…”

Section: Residents' Satisfaction As An Indicator Of Urban Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborating with Local Communities to Identify Improvement Priorities for Historic Urban Landscape Based on Residents’ Satisfaction: An Application of Asymmetric Impact-Performance Analysis in Dandong, China

Xian

Shao

2020

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In the process of urbanization and globalization, urban conservation reinforces the links among past, present, and future, which enhances local identity and is indispensable for urban sustainability. The concept of Historic Urban Landscape (HUL), as both a notion and an approach, has been playing an increasingly important role in urban conservation discourse. Prioritizing actions is one of the pivotal procedures to perform the HUL approach. Instead of simply focusing on values selected and graded by experts, more attention should be paid to local residents' satisfaction. A collaborative approach involving communities to prioritize actions in urban conservation and regeneration is proposed. Using the data from residents in the old town of Dandong, China, this study pioneers the application of the Asymmetric Impact-Performance Analysis (AIPA) technique in the urban conservation field. HUL attributes are categorized into basic factors, excitement factors, and performance factors based on their potential asymmetric impact on residents' satisfaction. By taking performance levels of the attributes into consideration, this study further identifies improvement priorities for HUL, which helps planners and city managers to make rational choices in managing historic cities.As the link between history and present, urban heritage is an integral component of local identity. Urban heritages together with the memories and associations inherent in them are the evidence that addresses how urban landscape has been continuously shaped and changed [4]. Both tangible and intangible urban heritage are precious and have the potential to be drivers of social cohesion and urban regeneration [5].Urban conservation has been a focus in urban planning, architecture, and other related fields since it was developed after the French Revolution [2]. Along with the evolution of this idea, the motivations for conservation have been changing over time. Urban conservation has gone through "Antiquarian Bias", "Commemorative Bias", and "Aesthetic Bias" in both academia and practice during the past three centuries, while a new bias is emerging in the 21st century which focuses on the relationships between different things, as well as between things and people, rather than things themselves [6]. This current trend is to see the human environment as a cultural landscape with an intention to manage it within the landscape discourse, which is called "Ecological Bias". From this holistic view, urban conservation and urban development are no longer incompatible with each other, since their joint aim is to enhance the human environment and allow communities to prosper. It has become increasingly clear that urban conservation is a key resource and an indispensable part of urban sustainability [7].The culmination of this new trend came in 2011 when Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape was declared [1] and commonly accepted. The concept of Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) was first set out at a UNESCO conference in Vienna in 2005 [8], thus HUL, as a new a...

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“…Within the area of research focused on city management, many authors have studied the performance of cities [1,[77][78][79][80], the measurement of smart cities in general [23,81], and the public services of smart cities in particular [12,32]. A successful smart city needs an adequate performance measurement system [39] as it allows to make the adequate strategic decisions [82].…”

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The Business Model Evaluation Tool for Smart Cities: Application to SmartSantander Use Cases

2017

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Abstract:New technologies open up the door to multiple business models applied to public services in smart cities. However, there is not a commonly adopted methodology for evaluating business models in smart cities that can help both practitioners and researchers to choose the best option. This paper addresses this gap introducing the Business Model Evaluation Tool for Smart Cities. This methodology is a simple, organized, flexible and the transparent system that facilitates the work of the evaluators of potential business models. It is useful to compare two or more business models and take strategic decisions promptly. The method is part of a previous process of content analysis and it is based on the widely utilized Business Model Canvas. The evaluation method has been assessed by 11 experts and, subsequently it has been validated applying it to the case studies of Santander's waste management and street lighting systems, which take advantage of innovative technologies commonly used in smart cities.

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City Life: Rankings (Livability) Versus Perceptions (Satisfaction)

Cited by 126 publications

References 18 publications

On the Necessity of an Integrated, Participative and Adaptive Approach to Sustainable Urban Environmental Quality Planning

On the Necessity of an Integrated, Participative and Adaptive Approach to Sustainable Urban Environmental Quality Planning

Collaborating with Local Communities to Identify Improvement Priorities for Historic Urban Landscape Based on Residents’ Satisfaction: An Application of Asymmetric Impact-Performance Analysis in Dandong, China

The Business Model Evaluation Tool for Smart Cities: Application to SmartSantander Use Cases

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