Dubai Happiness Agenda: Engineering the Happiest City on Earth

al-Azzawi, Ali

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2011-8_11

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“…In smart cities, SISS, as a kind of artificially created activity scene, will inspire urban residents to participate actively or passively and produce various experiences. Residents' personal experiences of SISS may change their situations and paces of life, which may directly affect emotional changes, different levels of needs and cognitive attitudes [20]. In addition, experiential marketing can provide emotional and functional values through feel perception, think perception, and service quality to induce customer satisfaction in hotels and the tourism industry [35].…”

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Smart City Development and Residents’ Well-Being

Lin

Zhao

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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The development of smart cities has greatly improved the living and working environment of urban residents, but whether it can enhance the happiness of urban residents is a controversial topic. In this study, we investigate residents' experiences of obtaining information, services and networks in smart cities from the aspects of safety, usefulness and convenience, and empirically explore their relationship with residents' subjective well-being (SWB). The results show that residents' safety, usefulness and convenience experiences of obtaining information, services and networks in smart cities all have positive impacts on their SWB, and the relationship between residents' safety experience and SWB is, to a certain extent, mediated by their usefulness and convenience experiences.

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confidence: 99%

Smart City Development and Residents’ Well-Being

Lin

Zhao

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…It is obvious that the government carrying out the projects has provided a safe living, leisure, and tourism environment, and the surrounding villages and people have benefited from it. This has been helpful for people to participate in leisure and tourism activities, has stimulated them to participate [ 33 ], and has improved their physical and mental health and quality of life so as to achieve the goal of building a happy city [ 34 ]. The current status of Mulanxi green space planning is shown in Figure 1 .…”

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A Study of the Impact of River Improvement and Greening on Public Reassurance and the Urban Well-Being Index during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lin

Chen

Tseng

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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This study aims to investigate the effect of river improvement and greening projects on people and the urban happiness index. First, the quantitative method was adopted, and data collected from 734 questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 software. Then, the qualitative method was used, and semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect the opinions of 12 interviewees, including scholars, government employees, citizens, and practitioners. Finally, we discuss multiple comparison analysis testing. The survey results indicate that river improvement and greening projects could be conducted to take advantage of diverse ecological environments, urban transportation planning, and geographical location. Such projects can help people relieve stress, even during the COVID-19 pandemic; improve their physical and mental health; and enhance their environmental awareness. However, due to poor traffic flow, a low space utilization rate, and inflexible management practices, visiting these environments has posed a risk of infection. As a result, most respondents indicated that the leisure benefits of green fields are limited and not helpful for improving their physical and mental health or having fun. Additionally, survey responses by people from different backgrounds (p < 0.01) varied. Therefore, we believe that by providing a safe living environment, strengthening disaster prevention skills and cooperation against epidemics, reducing accident risks, improving leisure safety and fluency, and planning diverse leisure activities, we can improve people’s perception of environmental experiences, promote leisure participation, improve leisure satisfaction, and enhance well-being.

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“…Analysis of scientific literature in recent years (since 2016) shows that most cities' problems are similar (Al-Azzawi, 2019;Angelidou, 2017;Ward et al, 2016). By the previously proposed definition of a city as a complex socio-technological system, in any city, its problems can be divided into two groups:…”

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confidence: 99%