Publication details
Kvalita života v mestách: východiská, prístupy, poznatky
| Title in English | Quality of Urban Life: Foundations, Approaches and Knowledge Base |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | What is our knowledge base regarding urban life and its quality? What does this knowledge tell us and what does it not tell us? What approaches and problems do we meet when we acquire and interpret the knowledge? Is the information coming from various studies sufficiently credible and can we rely on this information? Can our knowledge contribute to the improvement of quality of life of urban population? It is the main objective of this publication to answer the above mentioned questions. The key topic of this publication is quality of life in urban areas. Aiming at the fulfilment of this objective, the publication provides in individual chapters: a) basic knowledge and foundations regarding the concept of quality of life, b) the outline of the problem of urban environment (research), including different ways of understanding and definition of urban environments as well as different theories and opinions regarding urban life, c) the overview of (the results of) studies dealing with the research of quality of urban life, d) classification of approaches to the research of quality of urban life, e) discussion of acquired knowledge including the analysis of the possibilities of its further use and some other related problems. |