Is the Size of the City Important for the Quality of Urban Life? Comparison of a Small and a Large City

In the recent past, the question of determining the optimal city size in relation to the quality of urban life (QoUL) was raised of city inhabitants. This article has evaluated the correlation of the QoUL index in cities in relation to the number of inhabitants. We also deal with selected variables...

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Published inSustainability Vol. 14; no. 23; p. 15589
Main Authors Petrikovičová, Lucia, Kurilenko, Victoria, Akimjak, Amantius, Akimjaková, Beáta, Majda, Peter, Ďatelinka, Anton, Biryukova, Yulia, Hlad, Ľubomír, Kondrla, Peter, Maryanovich, Daliborka, Ippolitova, Lyubov, Roubalová, Marie, Petrikovič, Jozef
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2022
Subjects
Cities
City and town life
Culture
Economic aspects
Evaluation
Globalization
Happiness
Inhabitants
Investigations
Metropolitan areas
Pandemics
Population
Quality of life
Questionnaires
Regions
Social aspects
Subjective assessment
Urbanism
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Eastern Europe
Russia
Europe
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Summary:In the recent past, the question of determining the optimal city size in relation to the quality of urban life (QoUL) was raised of city inhabitants. This article has evaluated the correlation of the QoUL index in cities in relation to the number of inhabitants. We also deal with selected variables for which we assume a relationship with QoUL. The authors who calculated the indices of the quality of urban life equated the quality of life with its objective dimension considered as the quality of the place. It turned out that growth in the number of inhabitants of Slovak cities did not correlate with improving quality of life. Our article examined QoUL in two different countries on a scale of 0–10 through questionnaires. The obtained values are a subjective assessment. From a global point of view, one city is small and the other is big. The small city achieved better results in international rankings of quality of life, and it was assumed that this fact would also be reflected in the quantification of the quality of urban life. One hypothesis was that a small city will achieve better urban life quality values than a large city. The paper presents the results of measurement and correlation.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su142315589