The Small City Quality of Place Reporting System Project: Guiding Principles and Implementation Guidelines

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  • Gilles Viaud Thompson Rivers University

Abstract

Urban Canada is overwhelmingly understood – by the media, by much of the public, and by policy makers – as comprised of a tier of large cities.  As a result, the instruments for measuring quality of life in urban areas are calibrated to assess metropolitan factors, not those arising in cities with populations of fewer than 100,000. The objective of this paper is to propose the first generation of a quality of life indicator system and toolkit responding to the distinctive needs, limitations, and varied realities of small towns and small cities.

Author Biography

Gilles Viaud, Thompson Rivers University

Dr. Gilles Viaud is Chair of the Department of Geography at Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Viaud specializes in urban and social geography, and is currently working at the development of a quality of life reporting system and toolkit for small cities.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011): Map My Culture: Community and Space in Small Cities

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