UNDERSTANDING THE URBAN QUALITY OF LIFE CONCEPT AND ITS DIMENSIONS

Urban Studies

Quality of Life (QOL) is a concept, rather easier to understand than difficult to define comprehensively. Nevertheless, this nature of the concept has not deterred the researchers in their quest to define QOL and more than 100 definitions are noted in the literature. Understanding of what the QOL means to different authors is required in deriving a meaning for the concept within the research objectives and the scope. Further, the quantitative assessment of QOL will require identification of a set of dimensions and related indicators over which the public perception may be solicited. The identification of dimensions, indicators and assessment methodology are very crucial in deriving the QOL index and hence they need to be meaningfully derived through the support of the literature and the ground realities. In this paper discusses these aspects in detail.

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