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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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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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