Sustainable Development and Quality of Urban Life

Türkoğlu, Handan

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.203

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“…At the same time, from a social perspective, there has been a long-standing argument that people living in dense urban cities may have a lower quality of life (QoL) and are less happy or less satisfied with their lives than those living in the suburbs, based on city and regional data sets [11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. QoL has been widely considered to be an important indicator for social sustainability [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26], and is a multidimensional concept that has been assessed and quantified using a number of objective and subjective indicators across various research communities. In the social science and urban/community planning fields, life satisfaction and happiness are often used as indicators of subjective QoL [18][19][20].…”

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“…QoL has been widely considered to be an important indicator for social sustainability [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26], and is a multidimensional concept that has been assessed and quantified using a number of objective and subjective indicators across various research communities. In the social science and urban/community planning fields, life satisfaction and happiness are often used as indicators of subjective QoL [18][19][20]. However, very few studies have utilized building or neighborhood-scale data sets to evaluate residents' life satisfaction, which could be distributed unevenly within a city or county and across its neighborhoods.…”

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Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

Wood

Ditchman

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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There has been a long-standing debate about whether urban living is more or less sustainable than suburban living, and quality of life (QoL) is one of several key measures of the social sustainability of residential living. However, to our knowledge, no study to date has examined life satisfaction among residents of downtown high-rise living compared to residents living in suburban low-rise housing. Further, very few studies have utilized building or neighborhood-scale data sets to evaluate residents' life satisfaction, and even fewer have controlled for both individual and household-level variables such as gender, age, household size, annual income, and length of residence, to evaluate residents' life satisfaction across different living scenarios. Therefore, the goal of this study was to investigate residents' satisfaction with their place of residence as well as overall life in general via surveys of individuals living in existing high-rise residential buildings in downtown Chicago, IL, and in existing low-rise residential buildings in suburban Oak Park, IL. Over 1500 individuals were contacted directly, resulting in over 500 responses. The number of fully completed responses for this study was 177, including 94 from residents of four downtown high-rise buildings and 83 from residents in suburban low-rise homes. Residents living in downtown high-rise buildings had significantly higher life satisfaction scores than residents living in suburban low-rise homes when controlling for demographic differences; however, the differences were small, as housing type explained less than 5% of the observed variance in life satisfaction outcomes. The research also evaluated five life satisfaction domains including travel, accessibility, social interaction, safety, and overall residential environment (ORE). In all cases, residents of the downtown high-rises reported higher satisfaction levels, although the scores on all these five satisfaction domains reported from both urban scenarios were very high. Moreover, all five satisfaction domains were highly associated with each other, and accessibility and safety were found as the strongest predictors of ORE for individuals.

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Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

Wood

Ditchman

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…For example, Jian and Kazunori [63] proposed the use of convenience, comfort, health, safety, and community as the objective indicators for the sustainable development of urban living environments. Many studies [1,4,29,34] have mentioned that urban QOL can be evaluated and reflected using some objective and subjective indicators. Firouzmakan and Daneshpour [52] suggested that objective indicators are associated with significant and tangible real-life facts and include facilities and urban services.…”

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“…air quality index, green place ratio, population density, resource utilization, etc. ), a city with continued prosperity and development needs to promote interpersonal exchanges and interactions of life in order to enhance its overall quality [4]. Agenda 21 (1992) is the blueprint of sustainable development in the 21st century [2] as it places the environment under the framework of society and economy from the perspective of the living needs of humans.…”

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A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Urban Sustainable Development

Wang

Peng

2020

Mathematics

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With the rapid transformations of living environments, urban sustainable development has become an important global issue for urban growth and management. In order to effectively implement urban sustainable development, it is necessary to establish an operational action model based on its nature. This study first clarifies the core value of urban quality of life (QOL), and proposes the corresponding concept of Life-City. A variety of factors may affect the content of Life-City, and when assessing the objectives of sustainable development, there are uncertain properties and value judgments. Therefore, Life-City evaluation is a fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis (FMCDA) problem. This study constructs the dimensions and the possible impact factors for urban QOL development. The fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) is employed to screen evaluation criteria and develop the overall evaluation framework. In order to effectively convert the subjective and perceptual issues in the framework into objective and quantitative processing, this study adopts the extent analysis method on fuzzy AHP (EAFAHP) to aggregate experts' comments as empirical evaluation. The research results can convert the abstract concept of sustainability to the evaluation of Life-City specific operation, and serve as guidance for self-examination of current status and future policy development.Keywords: quality of life (QOL); Life-City; fuzzy multi-criteria decision analysis (FMCDA); fuzzy Delphi method (FDM); fuzzy extent analytic hierarchy process (FEAHP)

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“…These three elements are actually interlinked and overlapping because urban quality of life is the result of network between these dimensions (El Din et al, 2013). The environmental urban quality of life is one of the main dimensions of urban quality of life and the concept of urban air quality has been associating with the environmental urban quality of life in urban areas (Turkoglu, 2015).…”

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Examination of the Relationship between Urban Air Pollution and Urban Planning Decisions in Cigli Case, Izmir (Turkey)

Özcan¹,

Cubukcu²

2016

E-BPJ

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The air pollution problem remains, although significant improvements have been seen in urban air quality over the last years. Despite the size and variety of studies on urban air pollution, the usage of spatial statistics has been extremely limited. This study aims to show that the spatial statistic techniques can well be used to examine and explain the air pollution levels in urban areas. The data for the sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations are measures using passive diffusion tubes at the 67 monitoring sites in the district of Çiğli (Izmir), which are selected through a spatial systematic sampling process. The tubes were exposed for a 2-week period in August 2015. For the determination of the level of clustering for high values and low values of SO2 and NO2 concentrations, Getis-Ord G* local statistics are calculated. There are five points with high values of SO2 surrounded by low values, three points of NO2, where the results are statistically significant at the 0.10 level. The findings indicate that the presence of the industrial zone, the form of fossil fuels (coal or natural gas) used in heating, and topography are the strong determinants urban air pollution.

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Sustainable Development and Quality of Urban Life

Cited by 63 publications

References 2 publications

Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

Life Satisfaction of Downtown High-Rise vs. Suburban Low-Rise Living: A Chicago Case Study

A Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Evaluation Framework for Urban Sustainable Development

Examination of the Relationship between Urban Air Pollution and Urban Planning Decisions in Cigli Case, Izmir (Turkey)

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