Resource‐based view of city quality: Scales development and validation
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2019
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2021-09-30
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English
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As the urban world population grows steadily, cities have
become the main habitat for human beings. Against this
backdrop, city quality or the level of development of the
city's habitat that ensures the satisfaction of objective and
subjective human needs become a matter of growing interest
and concern for academics, policy makers, and citizens.
Building on a resource‐based view of city quality, the aim of
this paper is twofold. First, it proposes and validates scales
for six city sub‐habitats: political, economic, social, natural,
artificial, and technological. Second, it tests a model and
the underlying hypothesis about the ranking of those subhabitats
and of the perceived controversy regarding decision
making upon them. For those purposes, a survey of 768
city inhabitants was conducted in Portugal to measure city
quality and their sub‐habitats. Both the predicted ranking of
importance of the sub‐habitats and the perceived ranking of
controversy were empirically validated. The results constitute
a novel and important contribution to understand city
quality and its sub‐habitats, whose conceptual power relies
on hierarchized factors linked to citizens’ happiness and to
the level of controversy of the solutions.
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10.1111/grow.12312
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Carvalho, J. M. S., Costa, R. V., Marnoto, S., Vieira, J., & Sousa, C. A. A. (2019). Resource-Based View of City Quality: Scales and Validation. Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy, 50(3), 856-879. doi: 10.1111/grow.12312. Disponível no Repositório UPT, http://hdl.handle.net/11328/2997
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