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Quality of life remains a principal concern of contemporary urban planning and design. This keyword repeats in documents of global organisations such as the UN and the policy documents of the European Union. To satisfy this requirement, we need proper evaluation framework which would enable planners and all involved stakeholders to make the appropriate decisions and transform the human living environment in the right directions. In the current paper, we have reviewed several assessment schemes used for urban benchmarking looking for methods which might indicate how to improve the quality of life of residents. The article uses the case studies of three housing estates in Lodz, Poland, which we assess looking for recommendations for future planning. The evaluation scheme addresses several features considered essential for citizens’ well-being. We present the method of how to combine them to obtain a consolidated system of indicators. The current study is the first step towards a more developed framework of evaluation for the quality of life in urban planning.
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Hanzl, M., Misiak, J., Grela, K. (2020). Assessment of Quality of Life in Residential Estates in Lodz. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020. ICCSA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58808-3_57
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