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Toward a Resource‐Based View of City Quality: A New Framework
Author(s) -
Carvalho João M. S.,
Costa Ricardo V.,
Marnoto Sandra,
Sousa Célio A. A.,
Vieira José Carvalho
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/grow.12237
Subject(s) - happiness , resource (disambiguation) , quality (philosophy) , relation (database) , politics , conceptual framework , natural resource , sustainable city , sustainable development , sociology , business , environmental resource management , ecology , economics , political science , social science , computer science , computer network , philosophy , epistemology , database , law , biology
Based on an extensive literature review on intelligent cities, smart cities, and happy cities, and on their conceptual connections with citizens' well‐being, quality of life, and happiness, we developed a resource‐based view on City Quality: the PESNAT (political, economic, social, natural, artificial, and technological) framework. The concept of City Quality rests on the idea of cities interconnected sub‐habitats—PESNAT—which are powerful analytical categories needed for understanding cities as complex and intricate loci. This framework eventually aims at assessing the cities' power to attract businesses and people, to contribute to a sustainable development of the city and an increased quality of life. Furthermore, two hypotheses are outlined regarding the level of importance of each sub‐habitat in relation to happiness, and the level of controversy of each one for citizens, city planners, and decision makers.