Towards the development of quality of life indicators in the 'digital' city
Towards the development of quality of life indicators in the 'digital' city
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10.1068/b12918
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2004-01-01
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Schweikart, J
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Craglia, M;Leontidou, L;Schweikart, J
城市是欧洲社会经济和社会发展的中心，不仅因为超过80%的欧洲公民居住在城市地区，还因为城市同时是生产、创新、就业和文化的中心，也是种族隔离、贫困和种族冲突的场所。一项全欧洲范围的城市政策的出现，促使人们需要生活质量的可比指标，以监测发展和政策的执行情况。本文回顾了有关生活质量指标的文献，并认为传统的生活质量指标需要用两个新的维度来补充，这两个维度反映了有关城市景观构成的后现代主义思想，以及对新兴信息社会生活质量的贡献。我们认为，即使在信息系统和数据来源如此丰富的城市环境中，要想成为“数字城市”，构建反映这些新维度的适当指标也面临着巨大挑战。在为指标本身以及包括城市居民在内的有关人口和用户的定义寻找共同可行的定义方面存在困难。通过提出这些问题并提出应对这些挑战的可能途径，我们有助于就如何定义这些指标进行急需的辩论，这是制定和使用这些指标的先决条件。
Cities are central to the economic and social development of European society, not only because over 80% of European citizens live in urban areas, but also because cities are at the same time centres of production, innovation, employment, and culture, and loci of segregation, deprivation, and ethnic conflict. The emergence of a European-wide urban policy, has given new impetus to the need for comparable indicators of the quality of life to monitor development and policy implementation. This paper reviews the literature on quality of life indicators, and argues that traditional measures of the quality of life need to be supplemented with two new dimensions that reflect more recent postmodernist thinking about the composition of urban landscapes, and the contribution to the quality of life of the emerging information society. We argue that the challenges of building appropriate indicators reflecting these new dimensions are considerable, even in urban environments so rich in information systems and data sources, if they are to qualify as 'digital cities'. There are difficulties in finding common workable definitions of the indicators themselves, as well as definitions of the relevant populations, including city residents, and users. By raising these issues and suggesting possible avenues for addressing these challenges we contribute to a much-needed debate on how to define such indicators, which is the prerequisite for their development and use.