Dissatisfaction with city life: A new look at some old questions

Cities

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 117-124

  Berry, Brian J L ^a   Okulicz Kozaryn, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big city preferences; Life satisfaction; Multilevel models; Rural preferences; Urbanization; World Values Survey

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; URBANIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 65449118746     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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