This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life. It looks at quality of life within urban cities analysing amenities, infrastructure and assets while also bringing in the discourse around scarcity, disparity, accessibility, sustainability, equity, and well-being.
Organized into four major parts, the book reflects on the interconnections between theories and practice and through a multi-disciplinary approach focuses on the aspects of urban environment and planning that makes cities inclusive, safe, resilient, smart, and sustainable. This book highlights the enormous strain on urban areas due to severe scarcity of civic systems and provides an in-depth look into urban concerns and pressing challenges from a global perspective, as well as many planning approaches to solving these problems.
This book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers working in the field of urban studies, remote sensing and GIS, planning and sustainability, sustainable development, urban geography, development geography and population geography. This book would also be an invaluable companion to thought leaders, policy makers and industry and other professionals working in the field of urban planning and human development.
This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life. It looks at quality of life within urban cities analysing amenities, infrastructure and assets while also bringing in the discourse around scarcity, disparity, accessibility, sustainability, equity, and well-being.
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I-
Introduction
1. Urbanisation and Quality of Life: A Comparative Assessment
between Developed and Developing Countries
2. Decoding Quality of Life in
Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Nagpur City, India Part II Infrastructure and
Quality of Life
3. Existing state of Group Housing shortages and Household
Quality of Life in India
4. Significance of Placemaking in Urban Quality of
Life: Case Study of Nagpur
5. Changing Housing Preferences in Terms of Life
Quality in Kayseri Resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic
6. Displacement and
Urban Growth in Asian Cities
7. Urban Sprawl's Multifaceted Impact on Rurban
Areas: Insights from Indian Cities
8. Planning for Improvement of Basic
Infrastructure of Slums within Patna Municipal Corporation, Bihar, India: A
Comparative Case Study Part III Assets and Quality of Life
9. Sustainable
Urban Transportation: A standardized solution or mixed model system?
10. The
meaning of public transport infrastructure spatial pattern analysis in
sustainable mobility management through using remote sensing-GIS-based
geostatistical and machine learning techniques
11. Investigating Quality of
Life and Resilience: A Case Study on Tourism Service Providers in Meghalaya
12. Marginalisation and Vulnerabilities Faced by Sanitation Workers in India:
A Case Study of Delhi
13. Identification of Factors Affecting Urban Quality
of Life in Historic City Centres -The case of Dighalipukhuri, Guwahati, India
14. Living and health conditions, challenges, concerns and the way forward in
European cities Part IV Issues, Challenges and sustainable solutions of
Smart Urbanism and Quality of Life
15. A Review of Geospatial Urban Growth
Modelling with Applications
16. Urban Built-up Growth analysis using GIS
techniques in class l city in India: A case study of Surat
17. An Assessment
of Urban Density Pattern Evolution in Smaller Urban Agglomerations, using GIS
Modelling: A Case Study of Ambikapur City
18. The nexus between the COVID-19
pandemic-induced lockdowns and air quality in the megacity of Mumbai, India
19. Urban heat island effects on thermo-ecological environment: A case from
Asian mega-city Dhaka, Bangladesh
20. A Systematic Analysis of The Impact of
Urban Heat Islands: On Human Health and Lifestyle
21. Smart Cities with smart
tourism projects: Four case studies of entrepreneurship in Portugal
22. The
relationship between Quality of Life and vegetation Distribution in Tandil,
Argentina: A Spatial Analysis. Index
Uday Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Bhatter College, Dantan, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India.
Avishek Bhunia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, K.D. College of Commerce & General Studies, Midnapore, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India.
Jyothi Gupta is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, CHRIST (Deemed to be) University, Bengaluru., Karnataka, India.
Krishnendu Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Vidya Bhavana (Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences), Visva-Bharati, West Bengal, India.
