TY - JOUR
T1 - Urban Quality of Life
T2 - A Systematic Literature Review
AU - Bolzan Wesz, Josana Gabriele
AU - Miron, Luciana Inês Gomes
AU - Delsante, Ioanni
AU - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the University of Huddersfield, by the Brazilian Federal Agency Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior–CAPES—Process 88881.189280/2018-01), and by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico–CNPq—Process 152706/2022-4).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - The built environment has great influence over the sustainability of societies as well as over people’s quality of life. Quality of life (QoL) is a broad concept that has different definitions across diverse bodies of knowledge. The social–cultural environment and the characteristics of the built environment influence people’s perception of QoL. This study aims to identify and analyse the factors that impact QoL and sustainable development in the urban context. A systematic literature review was developed to understand QoL concepts and to identify urban indicators that contribute to the multidimensional evaluation of urban QoL. The results include (1) a holistic overview of QoL concepts and indicators; (2) the proposal of a holistic urban QoL concept; (3) the identification of urban QoL dimensions and indicators that contribute to urban QoL evaluation. The main contribution of this study is its discussion of the multidimensional nature of QoL, including objective and subjective dimensions.
AB - The built environment has great influence over the sustainability of societies as well as over people’s quality of life. Quality of life (QoL) is a broad concept that has different definitions across diverse bodies of knowledge. The social–cultural environment and the characteristics of the built environment influence people’s perception of QoL. This study aims to identify and analyse the factors that impact QoL and sustainable development in the urban context. A systematic literature review was developed to understand QoL concepts and to identify urban indicators that contribute to the multidimensional evaluation of urban QoL. The results include (1) a holistic overview of QoL concepts and indicators; (2) the proposal of a holistic urban QoL concept; (3) the identification of urban QoL dimensions and indicators that contribute to urban QoL evaluation. The main contribution of this study is its discussion of the multidimensional nature of QoL, including objective and subjective dimensions.
KW - urban quality of life
KW - sustainable development
KW - urban indicators
KW - objective indicators
KW - subjective indicators
KW - systematic literature review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163682300&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/urbansci7020056
DO - 10.3390/urbansci7020056
M3 - Literature review
VL - 7
JO - Urban Science
JF - Urban Science
SN - 2413-8851
IS - 2
M1 - 56
ER -
