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A Tool-kit to Measure the Urban Quality of Life for Low-income Residential Areas.

MSA University Engineering Journal MSA University • 2023
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Authors ibrahim magdi, sadek sadd, eslam nazmy, islam ghonimi
Keywords Urban Tool-Kit, Urban Quality of life, Livability, Low-income, Residential Areas
Journal MSA University Engineering Journal MSA University
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Abstract
This study aims at presenting a Tool-Kit –Proposed Model- to measure the urban quality of life for low-income groups. The aim is achieved through focusing on analyzing and discussing three of the major organizations that are concerning livable communities. Meanwhile, identifying the low-income group's concepts of the urban quality of life. Furthermore, a questionnaire of a Likert-type scale has applied to a sample of 31 specialists who were asked to rank the importance of the sub-dimensions proposed. The questionnaire analyzed using descriptive statistics to arrange the urban quality of life dimensions, and sub-dimensions, indicators to give them a relative weight in the Tool-Kit. The Tool-Kit also shows the frequencies of the proposed indicators in the three dimensions, the used tools, and the validation tools for the measurement. The proposed Tool-kit proved that it’s important to take into consideration both quantitative and qualitative measurements of the urban quality of life for low-income groups