A new approach to measuring the liveability of cities: The Global Liveable Cities Index

World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 176-196

  Giap, Tan Khee ^a   Thye, Woo Wing ^b   Aw, Grace ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

City benchmarking.; Economic competitiveness; Liveability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910604323     PISSN: 17412242     EISSN: 17412234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/WRSTSD.2014.065677     Document Type: Review

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