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Challenges for Quality of Urban Life Research

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Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series ((SINS,volume 45))

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This concluding chapter reviews the goals for the book and the approach taken in achieving them. A key goal is providing a comprehensive review of alternative approaches to measuring, analyzing, and using quality of urban life (QOUL) research. The approach has been to accomplish this from a historical, theoretical, and methodological perspective. The practical perspective was illustrated through a series of QOUL case studies undertaken on different parts of the world. Shortcomings of the volume are then discussed as well as challenges for its contributors and for QOUL researchers elsewhere.

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  1. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1248, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106, USA

    Robert W. Marans

  2. Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN), Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Melbourne, Australia

    Robert Stimson

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  1. Inst. Social Research, University of Michigan, Thompson St. 426, Ann Arbor, 48106-1248, Michigan, USA

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  2. Network (AURIN), University of Melbourne, Architecture Building and Planning, Australian Urban Research Infrastructure, Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia

    Robert J. Stimson

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Marans, R.W., Stimson, R. (2011). Challenges for Quality of Urban Life Research. In: Marans, R., Stimson, R. (eds) Investigating Quality of Urban Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1742-8_19

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