scholarly journals Creating Livable Asian Cities

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Asian Cities

This book explores how Asia’s fast-growing cities can fulfil their potential as engines of economic prosperity and provide a livable environment for all citizens. But for this to happen, major challenges that reduce urban communities’ quality of life and economic opportunities must be addressed. These include poor planning, a lack of affordable housing, inequalities, pollution, climate vulnerabilities, and urban infrastructure deficits. The book’s 19 articles unwrap these challenges and present solutions focused on smart and inclusive planning, sustainable transport and energy, innovative financing, and resilience and rejuvenation.

Quality of life among people who use drugs living in poor urban communities in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 103160
Author(s):  
Chika Yamada ◽  
Atsuro Tsutsumi ◽  
Takashi Izutsu ◽  
Maria T.R. Tuliao ◽  
Hiroya Matsuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
People Who Use Drugs

scholarly journals Affordable Homeownership: Solutions For Alleviating Mississauga's Affordable Housing Issue

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lynn Ormiston
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Housing Issue ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Policies And Programs

This research looks at literature, market trends, and policies and programs pertaining to affordable homeownership. The literature suggests that homeownership contributes to local economies and quality of life and is an important part of creating vibrant societies. This research is important as planning plays a vital role in representing those who cannot represent themselves and ensuring that a high quality of life is accessible to everyone. It explores the affordable housing issue in Mississauga and identifies the programs that currently exist to alleviate affordable housing issues. The recommendations are intended to guide Mississauga in the next steps of alleviating affordable homeownership issues. The recommendations provided are transient and can be used as a template for other municipalities in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area alleviate similar issues.

Urban Telecommunications Network

2010 ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tan Yigitcanlar ◽  
Hoon Jung Han
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Infrastructure Management ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Telecommunications Network ◽  
Recent Developments

Rapidly developing information and telecommunication technologies and their platforms in the late 20th Century helped improve urban infrastructure management and influenced quality of life. Telecommunication technologies make it possible for people to deliver text, audio and video material using wired, wireless or fiber-optic networks. Technologies convergence amongst these digital devices continues to create new ways in which the information and telecommunication technologies are used. The 21st Century is an era where information has converged, in which people are able to access a variety of services, including internet and location based services, through multi-functional devices such as mobile phones. This chapter discusses the recent developments in telecommunication networks and trends in convergence technologies, their implications for urban infrastructure planning, and for the quality of life of urban residents.

Whistleblowing: a three part view

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Francis ◽  
A. F. Armstrong ◽  
I Foxley
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Benefit ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide contrasting views on whistleblowing, and offers a three-fold view of whistleblowing. First, it gives some formal arguments. Second, it provides an account of whistleblowing from a whistle-blowers perspective. Third, it provides advice to potential whistle-blowers. Its main purpose is to outline the kinds of arguments in favour of whistleblowing, express some concerns and to provide advice in the form of suggestions. Design/methodology/approach – The initial two sections are provided to compare and contrast the academic and the practical consequences of deciding to blow the whistle. As such, it provides accounts that are meant to compare and contrast the two very different approaches. The final section gives suggestions for consideration for those contemplating blowing the whistle. Findings – The findings of this study are such that it is an argument rather then empirical data; notwithstanding, the perspectives that it brings to bear all point to the value of honesty, and its role as a justification for whistleblowing. Advice and suggestions stem from two rather different realms of discourse. The advice to prospective whistle-blowers is derived from extensive experience on the part of many. It is composed of both what questions to ask oneself, and what one must do to be self-protective. Originality/value – It is argued that corruption has little to commend it apart from the personal benefit of the corrupt acquisition of wealth, whereas openness and honesty appear to be a self-sustaining enterprise. Whistleblowing both enhances the quality of life in that it sustains the democratic process, and may well be related to economic prosperity. In all of this, the merit of transparency is basic.

Change and Diversity in American Community Life

1972 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Lamanna
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New York ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Community Life ◽  
The Poor

In any Discussion of American community life two beliefs are likely to quickly come to the fore. First, that we have over the last 50 years undergone a revolution in community settlement patterns and today we are an urban nation with more and more of our population crowding into our urban areas. Many now speak with disdain about the runaway urbanization and the emerging “ant-hill society.” A second theme that almost always accompanies the first is that the quality of life in our urban communities is deteriorating rapidly. One can hardly read a daily metropolitan newspaper without spotting a headline which sounds the alarm. Not long ago, for example, the New York Times had a front-page spread with the startling headline, “Eleven Mayors Warn Here of Collapse of U.S. Cities.” Stewart Alsop, in a Newsweek column with the foreboding title “The Cities Are Finished,” managed in the course of one page to inform his readers that the cities may be “finished” because they have become unlivable; that the net population of cities will continue to fall; that the future is statistically predictable—in another 10 years most of our cities will consist mostly of blacks; and that the cities will come to resemble reservations for the poor and the blacks surrounded by heavily guarded middle-class suburbs. More recently, Sol Linowitz, Chairman of the National Urban Coalition, declared, “We have abandoned our cities … [and while they] are not on fire today, most of the conditions that caused the civil disorders in recent years have worsened.”

Fibroadenomas in rats

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 220-223
Author(s):  
Rachel Sibbald
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Anaesthetic Management ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Veterinary Surgeons ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Treatment Plans

This article looks at one of the most common reasons for presentation to practice in rats, mammary fibroadenomas. There is an extremely high incidence of this disease process in rats over 1 year of age and veterinary nurses have a duty of care towards these patients to provide up-to-date nursing techniques and engage in clinical discussions with veterinary surgeons to implement appropriate treatment plans. Surgical and medical options are explored along with tips for successful anaesthetic management of these patients. Although these neoplasms are benign, they are often fast growing and can significantly affect quality of life in rat companions.

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