The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities

by Bernard M.S. van Praag and Andrew Powell

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective information with subjective opinions and cover a wide variety of topics. This book assesses a method that takes advantage of both types of information and offers criteria to identify and rank the issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. This method--which combines the so-called 'hedonic price'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821378376
• ISBN13: 9780821378373
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"