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作者

Francisco J. Goerlich;Ernest Reig

来源

CITIES,Vol.109,Issue1,Article 102979

语言

英文

关键字

Quality of life;Composite indicators;Non-compensability approach;Spanish cities;Condorcet ranking

作者单位

University of Valencia & Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (Ivie), Valencia, Spain;University of Valencia & Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (Ivie), Valencia, Spain

摘要

Urban areas are hubs of economic activity, but also consumption centers where a high quality of life may attract human capital and increase prospects of economic growth and well-being. We rank 73 Spanish cities on the basis of 35 individual indicators covering three basic facets of quality of life: socio-economic performance, general livability conditions, and residents' health status. We reject the conventional approach of compensability among different quality of life dimensions in favor of a Condorcet-inspired non-compensability approach. We obtain three partial composite indicators, one for each of the aforementioned dimensions, and a global indicator that synthesizes the three of them. Large cities display some advantages concerning the first two dimensions, but nevertheless substantial heterogeneity remains with regard to the relationship between quality of life and population size.