Beschreibung:
This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural environment and its management; satisfaction with freedom from fear; satisfaction with the socio-cultural conditions; and satisfaction with public governance.
What Makes a City More Liveable?; The Empirical Framework: Methodology, Data and Computation Algorithm; The Empirical Findings and Policy Simulation; The Liveable City-States of Hong Kong and Singapore; The Global Liveable Cities Index in Perspective.