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Happy City- Viewing the City through a Quality of Life Lens

date November 5, 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00
place
Multipurpose room 15
organization
International Society for Quality of Life Studies
country
United States of America
language
English
Reference: 
TE 15-01

Summary

This event aims to demonstrate the importance of viewing the city through a quality of life lens. It aims to provide hands on training for city representatives on how they can kickstart a quality of life campaign in their communities, how to choose a combination of objective and subjective indicators for measuring quality of life and wellbeing and how to take action to respond to the needs of their people.

Objectives

1. Understand the technical aspect of indicators including the important role of subjective measures to compliment objective measures
2. Recognize that quality of life means different things to different people and the importance of demographic and spatial disaggregation
3. Understand how new forms of data collection and generation can improve data coverage in cities and potentially accelerate the SDGs

Session panelists

Panelist
Role
Organization
Country
Mr. Ms. Raphaelle Vignol
Global Coordinator of the Quality of Life Initiative
UN-Habitat (Moderator)
Mr. Dr. Joseph Sirgy
Professor
isqols.org
Mr. Takehiko Nagumo
Executive Managing Director
Smart City Institute Japan
Mr. Norah Alyusuf
Global Engagement Senior Advisor
Quality of Life Program Center