Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes

Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 395
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ISBN-10 : 9783319655819
ISBN-13 : 3319655817
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Book Synopsis Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes by : Roberta Cocci Grifoni

Download or read book Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes written by Roberta Cocci Grifoni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants. It presents a decision-support system to orient public administrations in identifying development scenarios for sustainable urban and territorial transformations. The authors have split the volume into five parts, which respectively describe the theoretical basis of the book, the policies in question and indicators that influence them, the decision-support system that connects indicators to policies, the case study of Ancona, Italy, and potential future directions for this work. This volume is based on transdisciplinary research completed in May 2016 that involved about 40 researchers at The University of Camerino, Italy and other European universities. With purchase of this book, readers will also have access to Electronic Supplementary Material that contains a database with groups of indicators of assessment of urban quality of life and a toolkit containing the data processing system and management information system used in the book’s case study.


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