The quality of the urban environment around public housing buildings in Montréal: An objective approach based on GIS and multivariate statistical analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-380

  Apparicio, Philippe ^a   Séguin, Anne Marie ^a   Naud, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Built environment; Geographical information systems; Montr al; Public housing; Spatial analysis; Urban quality of life

Indexed keywords

GIS; LAND USE PLANNING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING;

CANADA; MONTREAL; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 41549156511     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9185-4     Document Type: Article

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