Factors Underlying Life Quality in Urban Contexts: Evidence from an Industrial City (Arak, Iran)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/6/2274" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/6/2274</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062274" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12062274</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Factors Underlying Life Quality in Urban Contexts: Evidence from an Industrial City (Arak, Iran)

Original language description

Cities play a vital role in local development providing a high education level, specialized jobs and advanced services. When assessing living conditions and wellbeing in cities, economic indicators alone are generally unable to evaluate the inherent complexity of the 'quality of life' issue in urban environments. With rapid urbanization, shortage of infrastructures and services emerged in metropolitan regions of developing countries, leading to disadvantaged settlements, urban poverty, lower citizens' satisfaction, and an overall decline in life quality. Based on these premises, the present study illustrates a subjective investigation of life quality in an emerging economy such as Iran, focusing on Arak, the fourth largest industrial pole of the country. Based on a literature review on quality of life in industrial cities of emerging economies, subjective indicators of citizens' satisfaction on living quality in Arak were identified and quantified using empirical results from a field survey. Results of our study show that the overall satisfaction for living quality in Arak is rather low, reaching the lowest rank in the issues of environmental sanitation and public transportation. Lack of investments in urban infrastructure justifies the low citizens' perception of life quality in Arak city. The paper concludes outlining the urgent need of homogeneous and comparable macro- and micro-data on multiple aspects of quality of life at both city-level and metropolitan-level in emerging economies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

2274

UT code for WoS article

000523751400121

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083050436