{"product_id":"9789814417327","title":"Ranking The Liveability Of The World's Major Cities: The Global Liveable Cities Index (Glci): The Global Liveable Cities Index (GLCI)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of \u003ci\u003eliveability\u003c\/i\u003e depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural environment and its management; satisfaction with freedom from fear; satisfaction with the socio-cultural conditions; and satisfaction with public governance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors attempt to be more constructive through performing policy simulations by first identifying relative weaknesses and strengths of 64 global cities across major continents including European, Asian, Middle Eastern, North and South American cities. The book also ranks and simulates 36 Asian cities separately, of which many are emerging third-world cities that are in need of policy guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Makes a City More Liveable?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Empirical Framework: Methodology, Data and Computation Algorithm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Empirical Findings and Policy Simulation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Liveable City-States of Hong Kong and Singapore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Global Liveable Cities Index in Perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership: \u003c\/b\u003eAcademics, researchers and students of urban planning, management; senior city officials and related practitioners; policy makers; senior management of multinational corporations.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185285578992,"sku":"9789814417327","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814417327_p0.jpg?v=1763692128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814417327","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}