Investigating Quality of Urban Life

<p>Preface.-</p><p>List of contributors.-</p><p>Introduction.-</p><p>1. An overview of quality of urban life - Robert W. Marans, Robert Stimson.-</p><p>Part I: Approaches to the study of quality of life and quality of urban life.-</p><p>2. Objective measurement of quality of life using secondary data analysis - Robert Stimson, Robert W. Marans.-</p><p>3. Subjective measurement of quality of life using primary data collection and the analysis of survey data - Rod McCrea, Robert W. Marans, Robert Stimson, John Western.-</p><p>4.The evolution of integrative approaches to the analysis of quality of urban life - Rod McCrea, Robert Stimson, Robert W. Marans.-</p><p>Part II: Empirical studies of the objective measurement of quality of urban life.-</p><p>5. Amenities, quality of life and regional development - Gordon Mulligan, John Carruthers.-</p><p>6. Variations in objective quality of urban life across a city region: The case of Phoenix - Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Ying Cao.-</p><p>Part III: Empirical studies of the subjective assessment of quality of urban life illustrated by a selection of case studies.-</p><p>7. The quality of life in metro Detroit at the beginning of the millennium - Robert W. Marans, Byoung-Suk Kweon.-</p><p>8. The Brisbane-South East Queensland region, Australia: Subjective assessment of quality of urban life and changes over time - Robert Stimson, Rod McCrea, John Western.-</p><p>9. Measuring quality of urban life in Istanbul - Handan Türkoğlu, Fulin Bölen, Perver Korça Baran, Fatih Terzi.-</p><p>10. The quality of urban life and neighbourhood satisfaction in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus - Derya Oktay, Ahmet Rustemli.-</p><p>11. The quality of life in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Neighbourhood quality as a major component of residential satisfaction - Abul Mukim Mozammel Haque Mridha, Gary Moore.-</p><p>12. The Salzburg quality of urban life study with GIS support - Alexander G. Keul, Thomas Prinz.-</p><p>13. Subjective quality of life in Queensland: Comparing metropolitan, regional, and rural areas - Rod McCrea, Mark Western, Tung-Kai Shyy.-</p><p>14. Comparing urban and rural quality of life in the State of Washington - Benjamin Messer, Don Dillman.-</p><p>Part IV: Innovations in modelling quality of urban life data.-</p><p>15. Modelling determinants of subjective QOUL at different geographic scales: The case of the Brisbane-SEQ region” - Rod McCrea, John Western, and Robert Stimson.-</p><p><p>16. Disaggregating the measurement of quality of urban life dimensions across a complex metro region: the case of Metro Detroit - Byung-Suk Kweon, Robert W. Marans.-</p><p>17. A spatial clustering approach analysing types of objective quality of urban life using spatial data for survey respondents: South-East Queensland, Australia - Rod McCrea.-</p><p>18. Using GIS to derive region-wide patterns of quality of urban life dimensions: Illustrated with data from the Brisbane-SEQ region - Prem Chhetri, Robert Stimson, John Western.- </p><p>The way forward.-</p><p>19. Challenges for quality of urban life research - Robert W. Marans, Robert Stimson.</p>