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The quality of life in Latin American cities : markets and perception / edited by Eduardo Lora ... [et al.]

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Latin American development forum seriesPublisher: Washington, DC ; s.l. : Inter-American Development Bank : World Bank, 2010Description: Online-Ressource (xxvii, 263 p) : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0821378376
  • 0821382136
  • 9780821382134
  • 9780821378373
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780821378373 DDC classification:
  • 306.09728/091732 22
LOC classification:
  • HN110.5.A8
DOI: DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-7837-3Online resources:
Contents:
Latin American cities: their origins, achievements, and problems / Eduardo LoraMeasuring quality of life in Latin America's urban neighborhoods: a summary of results from the city case studies / Andrew Powell and Pablo Sanguinetti -- Toward an urban quality of life index: basic theory and econometric methods / Bernard M.S. von Praag and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell -- Well-being at the subcity level: the Buenos Aires neighborhood quality of life survey / Guillermo Cruces, Andrés Ham, and Martín Tetaz -- Quality of life in urban neighborhoods of Bogotá And Medellín, Colombia / Carlos Medina, Leonardo Morales, and Jairo Núñez -- Pricing amenities in urban neighborhoods of Costa Rica / Luis J. Hall, Juan Robalino, and Róger Madrigal -- Influence of individual, urban, and civil society spheres on quality of life in metropolitan Lima, Peru / Lorena Alcázar and Raúl Andrade -- Housing and neighborhood satisfaction in Montevideo, Uruguay / Zuleika Ferre, Néstor Gandelman, and Giorgina Piani.
Summary: This book suggests how that exploration should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and reasonable in cost can then be put into practice. Long the ideal of many scholars and observers of urban problems, such a system may now be close to realization. In this book, examples of Latin American cities are used as case studies. As argued in the first chapter, there are good reasons to concentrate on Latin America: it is the world region with the most rapid urban development and is the most urbanized region in the developing world. In contrast to residents of cities in poorer regions, Latin Americans have managed to democratize homeownership and to extend basic services to the majority of households. That means that improving the Quality of Life (QoL) in Latin American cities is no longer primarily a matter of bricks and mortar. But the challenges are as large as they are diverse. Chapter two introduces the reader to the hedonic price and the life satisfaction approaches and presents a comparative summary of the conclusions of the six case studies. This chapter, like the first, is essential for the policy maker or activist in urban affairs who wants to understand the possibilities of the new systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Chapter three is a concise and self-contained introduction to the economic theory on which the hedonic pricing and life satisfaction approaches are based and which forms the backbone of this book. Chapters four-eight then summarize the most notable findings of the case studies, each emphasizing a different topic and focus.PPN: PPN: 834955644Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-110-WBL | ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBO
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