Quality of urban life, A comparative study between Tehran and Vienna
In this study, I focus on the concept of ‘quality of urban life’ to explore how this concept is conceptualized in the cities. In the literature on the quality of urban life, usually, the concept has been argued in a generalized way. Also, the main pillars of a good city consider globalized standards in contemporary urban life. Although, Context dependency of the concept can make diversity in understanding and perceiving this concept by the fact that cities have different characters rooted in historical, contextual, and local differences. Cities follow different types of development strategies according to what they perceive as good and qualified cities. Therefore, it is important to illustrate the pervasiveness beyond the consensus of the concept definition.
There is a mistake that assumes that the concept of quality of life and the values that underline this concept is universal (Kagawa, 1993). This was caused by the absence of qualitative studies to demonstrate the perceptions and definitions of the other cultural groups and prevented valid cross-cultural comparisons of quality of life (Kagawa, 1993). It elicits the necessity of recognizing the influence of values on the conceptualization of the quality of life as a concept.
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For this purpose, I apply a qualitative approach using a cross-cultural comparative study. The comparison is based on two cities, Tehran which is an underdeveloped city in the Middle East, and Vienna a European city which is a characterized developed city with a leadership role by its high rank of quality of life throughout the world.
The theoretical approach of the study employs globalized theories of city development and the main constructs of a good city to draw out a conceptual framework for the comparison benchmark. Noticeable is, indicators of quality of urban life are not objectively given, but they define by factors. Hence, I explore how the concept of the ‘Quality of Urban Life’ is conceptualized in two different contexts and what are the determinants that are contributing to the quality of urban life.
It provides an adopted cross-cultural map of the concept specification of the quality of urban life in two different contexts that reveal how contextual uniqueness can make different types of city development.
My field of study is urban sociology and would like to learn how to use urban theories and how to apply them to my specific research area which is ‘Quality of urban life’. I had a lot of studies but my research does not fit into a theory correctly yet. Therefore, I’m at an early stage of my study and have not passed the public presentation. My priorities according to the specified fields on Moodle are:
(1) Globalization, (2) Urban Policies, (3) New Planning Approaches, (4) Urban Cultures
References,
- •Kagawa-Singer, M. (1993). Redefining health: living with cancer. Social Science & Medicine, 37(3), 295-304.
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