Towards the development of quality of life indicators in the 'digital' city

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-64

  Craglia, Massimo ^a   Leontidou, Lila ^b   Nuvolati, Giampaolo ^c   Schweikart, Jürgen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d Department of Mathematics Physics and Chemistry   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; URBAN PLANNING;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 1242276423     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b12918     Document Type: Article

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