Improving city-scale measures of livable sustainability: A study of urban measurement and assessment through application to the city of Birmingham, UK

Cities

Volumn 71, Issue , 2017, Pages 80-87

  Leach, Joanne M ^a   Lee, Susan E ^a   Hunt, Dexter V L ^a   Rogers, Chris D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City measurement and assessment; Decision making; Indicators; Livability; Policy; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING; EMPOWERMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN POLICY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85026256213     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.06.016     Document Type: Article

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