Urban happiness: context-sensitive study of the social sustainability of urban settings

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 34-57

  Kyttä, Marketta ^a   Broberg, Anna ^a   Haybatollahi, Mohammed ^a   Schmidt Thomé, Kaisa ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

context sensitive; PPGIS; residents; social sustainability; urban density

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GIS; SUBURBAN AREA; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN SOCIETY;

FINLAND; HELSINKI; VARSINAIS-SUOMI;

EID: 84953931687     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265813515600121     Document Type: Article

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