Variations in quality of life in urban Britain: 1989

Rogerson, Robert; Findlay, Allan; Morris, Arthur; Paddison, Ronan

doi:10.1016/0264-2751(89)90030-9

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“…Although in a study on well-being distribution Dorling (2006) reported findings in line with those presented here in terms of the North/South spatial segregation amongst cities, our findings suggest that these inequalities affect urban areas more intensively than rural areas. Moreover, compared with two similar QOL studies conducted twenty years ago amongst major (Findlay et al, 1988) and intermediate (Rogerson et al, 1989) British cities, which concluded that the highest QOL tends to be found away from the South East, our study suggests that the urban areas of the South East currently enjoy some of the highest QOL conditions. In contrast, such Northern localities as Liverpool and Manchester continue to be ranked amongst the least attractive areas.…”

Section: Rural Urbanmentioning

confidence: 56%

Quality of Life in Urban-Classified and Rural-Classified English Local Authority Areas

Campanera

Higgins

2011

Environ Plan A

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This paper presents the results of an analysis of the Audit Commission's local quality-of-life indicators dataset to compare reported outcomes amongst 208 urban-classified and 144 rural-classified English local authority areas. We contextualise the demarcation of the urban and rural by reference to the transformational politics of the previous Labour government and its establishment of the sustainable communities initiative, whose controversial 'place-based' revitalisation essence continues to shape local government policy. According to the collectivist sustainability interpretation of the 73 indicators analysed, our results reveal that not only do urban-classified English local authority areas register a significantly lower quality of life than their rural counterparts but that they are also subject to much greater statistical and spatial variation. In addition, we find that the communityrelated and economy-related indicators serve to distinguish the reported quality-of-life conditions of rural and urban localities most, whereas the scores for transport are uniquely superior for urban areas, especially London. In considering the policy implications of our results, we draw attention to Labour's much-trumpeted justice-based approach to sustainable development, and contemplate the viability of the Conservative -Liberal Democrat coalition government's 'Big Society' endeavour.

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Section: Rural Urbanmentioning

confidence: 56%

Quality of Life in Urban-Classified and Rural-Classified English Local Authority Areas

Campanera

Higgins

2011

Environ Plan A

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“…The use of perceptual indicators remains a particularly contentious issue within quality of life research, especially regarding the weight to be attached to each indicator and how this weight is formulated. While proponents of perceptual indicators suggest that the results of a general survey or focus group can be used to weight variables (Rogerson et al, 1987(Rogerson et al, , 1989a, others such as Knox (1976) and Seidman (1977) have criticized the value judgments involved in the weighting process. Despite such advocates as Cutter (1985), Rogerson et al (1989b) and Johnston (1980Johnston ( , 1982 very few QOL studies include perceptual indicators.…”

Section: The Geographical Approach To Quality Of Lifementioning

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Quality of Life in Saskatoon 1991 and 1996: A Geographical Perspective

Randall

Morton

2003

Urban Geography

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Interest in the concept of "quality of life" (QOL) has increased exponentially in many areas of public policy. A constant theme in QOL research in the last 30 years has been a focus on the measurement and the types of indicators utilized. The objective of this paper is to identify the structure, spatial variation, and change in quality of life from 1991 to 1996 within Saskatoon, Saskatchewan by using a range of indicators relating to the social and physical environment, modified by perception. The QOL model used was developed by combining aspects of Cutter's (1985) geographical model of quality of life and Myers' (1987) community of quality of life model to assess QOL over time from a geographical perspective. The integration of objective, subjective and perceptual indicators, using a survey of Saskatoon residents, allowed for a broader interpretation of quality of life than is normally the case. The structure of QOL identified from the results of a series of principal component analyses consistently identified two important structures, structures of general affluence and general disadvantage. Results showed that the most disadvantaged residents in 1991 and 1996 were living to the west of the Central Business District, clustered in several neighborhoods, while residents enjoying a higher QOL tended to live in the suburbs toward the periphery of Saskatoon. [Key words: quality of life, socioeconomic indicators, principal component analysis, spatial analysis, urban planning.]

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“…In the late 1980s and across the 1990s and drawing upon the work of the Glasgow Quality of Life Group (see McKendrick, this Special Issue) Ronan published with Allan Findlay and Robert Rogerson on the question of quality of life rankings in the United Kingdom (Rogerson et al, 1989(Rogerson et al, , 1996. This work lent itself to complicity with urban neoliberalism but it also championed the importance of human prosperity and wellbeing more broadlymore than simply GDP growthin urban development, a theme which has recently become again of central importance.…”

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States of power: Ronan Paddison, Space and Polity

Boyle

2020

Space and Polity

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In this article, I record some thoughts on Ronan Paddison's accomplishments as an intellectual leader-scholar-citizen who made substantive and consequential contributions to the advancement of the systematic branch of Political Geography. I first consider that portion of Ronan's body of published research which tackles political geographical themes, commenting in particular upon his scholarship on state power, before exploring in greater detail the meaning and implications of his role as founder and Editor in Chief of the journal Space and Polity. Against the backdrop of the neoliberalising academy, Ronan Paddison's service to Political Geography serves as a lighthouse for those who survive him: it gestures to the kinds of academic subjectivities which enable privilege to be used wisely and reminds us of the indispensable work the protean scholar performs so that academic communities might prosper.

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Variations in quality of life in urban Britain: 1989

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Quality of Life in Urban-Classified and Rural-Classified English Local Authority Areas

Quality of Life in Urban-Classified and Rural-Classified English Local Authority Areas

Quality of Life in Saskatoon 1991 and 1996: A Geographical Perspective

States of power: Ronan Paddison, Space and Polity

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