A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective informati

This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in different countries of La

By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented

Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-in

About half of the region's poor live in cities, and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programmes