Quality of city life multiple criteria analysis

Cities

Volumn 72, Issue , 2018, Pages 82-93

  Kaklauskas, A ^a   Zavadskas, E K ^a   Radzeviciene, A ^a   Ubarte, I ^a   Podviezko, A ^a   Podvezko, V ^a   Kuzminske, A ^a   Banaitis, A ^a   Binkyte, A ^a   Bucinskas, V ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

INVAR method; Modeling; Quality of Life Index; Sensitivity analysis; Sustainable cities; Urban indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027687562     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.08.002     Document Type: Article

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