LEADER 03684oam 22007335 450 001 9910791339103321 005 20230207232626.0 010 $a0-8213-8213-6 024 7 $a10.1596/978-0-8213-7837-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000014583 035 $a(EBL)589799 035 $a(OCoLC)811492973 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000410091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12172163 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000410091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10349257 035 $a(PQKB)10210261 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC589799 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL589799 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389748 035 $a(The World Bank)ocn297146480 035 $a(US-djbf)16074364 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000014583 100 $a20100129d2010 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe quality of life in Latin American cities : $emarkets and perception /$fedited by Eduardo Lora ... [and others] 210 1$aWashington, DC :$cInter-American Development Bank :$cWorld Bank,$d[2010] 210 4$dcopyright 2010. 215 $axxvii, 263 pages $cillustrations, maps ;$d23 cm 225 1 $aLatin American development forum series 300 $a"A Copublication of the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank." 311 $a0-8213-7837-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Latin American Cities: Their Origins, Achievements, and Problems; Chapter 2: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America's Urban Neighborhoods: A Summary of Results from the City Case Studies; Chapter 3: Toward an Urban Quality of Life Index: Basic Theory and Econometric Methods; Chapter 4: Well-Being at the Subcity Level: The Buenos Aires Neighborhood Quality of Life Survey; Chapter 5: Quality of Life in Urban Neighborhoods of Bogota? and Medelli?n, Colombia 327 $aChapter 6: Pricing Amenities in Urban Neighborhoods of Costa RicaChapter 7: Influence of Individual, Urban, and Civil Society Spheres on Quality of Life in Metropolitan Lima, Peru; Chapter 8: Housing and Neighborhood Satisfaction in Montevideo, Uruguay; Index; Back cover 330 $aThis book explores a new method of monitoring the quality of urban life, combining objective and subjective information to assess quality of life by using the market price of housing and individuals' life satisfaction in six Latin American cities: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Medellin, Montevideo and San Jose. Housing prices show how the market values characteristics of not only a house itself, but also its surroundings. Life satisfaction, though less measurable, can be approximated using a simple survey question. Those measurements can be used to answer questions such as the following:. What 410 0$aLatin American development forum. 410 0$aWorld Bank e-Library. 606 $aQuality of life$zLatin America 606 $aCities and towns$zLatin America 607 $aLatin America$xSocial conditions 607 $aLatin America$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aQuality of life 615 0$aCities and towns 676 $a306.09728/091732 701 $aLora$b Eduardo$01511989 712 02$aWorld Bank. 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bBTCTA 801 2$bYDXCP 801 2$bC#P 801 2$bBWX 801 2$bCDX 801 2$bVVC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791339103321 996 $aThe quality of life in Latin American cities$93782140 997 $aUNINA