Cities and quality of life. Quantitative modeling of the emergence of the happiness field in urban studies

Cities

Volumn 88, Issue , 2019, Pages 191-208

  Papachristou, Ioanna Anna ^a   Rosas Casals, Marti ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cities; Complex networks; Ego networks; Evolving graphs; Happiness; Urban studies

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85057797267     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2018.10.012     Document Type: Article

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