Development and Quality of Life in Cities

Peach, Nathanael D; Petach, Luke

doi:10.1177/0891242415620277

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“…Among the many indices analysed from literature, the most similar indices to the Sustain-LED Index have been the Green City Index elaborated by WalletHub (Bernardo, 2016), and the Metropolitan Development Index (Peach & Petach, 2016). There are some substantial differences with these indices though: while the Sustain-LED Index has been elaborated based on a database of 53 MSAs, while the Green City Index has been elaborated on a database of 100 cities.…”

Section: Advantages and Disadvantages Of The New Indexmentioning

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Incorporating innovation metrics in urban indices: the Sustain-LED Index

Cantafio

Ryan

2020

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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This study explores a tool used to assess economic development, technological innovation, environmental sustainability and liveability in urban areas. The research employs qualitative and quantitative analysis in the development of an indexthe Sustainability-Innovation-Local Economic Development Index (Sustain-LED Index)that considers macroeconomic and environmental indicators and associated policies implemented in the largest US metropolitan areas. The Sustain-LED Index could broaden the range of tools available to policy-makers for identifying and removing obstacles for improving the quality of life, reducing inequalities and diminishing the degree of pollution in urban areas. It could represent a supporting tool for local entities to design new policies for spurring local economic development and it could be used for designing new urban policies throughout a greater understanding of the economic, social and environmental consequences caused by urbanization.

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Section: Advantages and Disadvantages Of The New Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incorporating innovation metrics in urban indices: the Sustain-LED Index

Cantafio

Ryan

2020

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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“…Although the Walk Score serves as an indicator of internal connectivity, the score increases when access to common urban amenities exist, which indicates greater land use diversity. Relatedly, Peach and Petach (2016) used Walk Scores to construct their metropolitan development index.…”

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The Economic Growth and Development Outcomes Related to Vibrancy: An Empirical Analysis of Major Employment Centers in Large U.S. Cities

Malizia

Chen

2019

Economic Development Quarterly

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Economic developers are well aware of the live-work-play dynamic affecting downtowns and many other major employment centers across the country. This study of 90 employment centers, including 48 central business districts, offers a rigorous analysis of this dynamic. The authors first present a definition of vibrancy and show its connections to the fields of urban economics, economic geography, and urban design. Second, the authors offer face-valid measures of vibrancy that practitioners can replicate in their jurisdictions. Most important, the authors show that vibrancy is an important factor influencing economic development. The vibrancy index measured with 2010 data is positively associated with subsequent employment growth, property inventory expansion (tax base), and income growth. Economic developers should consider becoming more involved in downtown redevelopment by finding effective ways to serve economic-base companies and emerging entrepreneurial firms. As a result, major employment centers could become more productive and innovative places.

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“…The first stage in applying the composite index to the case of Spain involved selecting the partial indicators that represent each of the dimensions included in the theoretical framework for sustainable urban liveability. The starting point for this selection was a review of the indicators used in recent research in line with the objectives of this article [5,6,8,[20][21][22]29,[60][61][62][63][64][65][66]. Table 1 shows the final selection of partial indicators used to estimate the sustainable urban liveability composite index of Spanish cities, as well as their sign and the database they were obtained from and the year they refer to.…”

Section: A Proposal For a Sustainable Urban Liveability Index (Suli): The Case Of Spainmentioning

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Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

2018

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This article presents a proposal for a composite index to assess the degree of sustainable urban liveability. It makes two key contributions to this field of study. The first is a proposal for the concept of sustainable urban liveability that includes the need to meet a minimum number of environmental conditions in terms of resource consumption and the deterioration of the environment. The second contribution is the use of a non-compensatory aggregation technique in order to construct the composite index. This kind of aggregation technique does not allow trade-offs between partial indicators. In the particular context of sustainable urban liveability, it prevents poor performance by the natural environment indicators from being compensated by positive results in the remaining indicators. The proposed composite index for sustainable urban liveability is applied to the case of 58 Spanish cities. The results reveal significant differences in the degree of sustainable urban liveability for this group of cities, but more importantly, they highlight the potential of this proposal for urban management.

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Development and Quality of Life in Cities

Cited by 16 publications

References 61 publications

Incorporating innovation metrics in urban indices: the Sustain-LED Index

Incorporating innovation metrics in urban indices: the Sustain-LED Index

The Economic Growth and Development Outcomes Related to Vibrancy: An Empirical Analysis of Major Employment Centers in Large U.S. Cities

Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

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