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Quality of Life and Livability in selected Neighborhoods in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Weje Innocent, Ikezam Worahu Ndukueze, Faithful |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Building livable and sustainable cities has become one of the imperatives of modern planning more so that the rate of world’s urbanization is now on the increase especially among the less developing nations. There is also a renewed concern that improving the quality of life and livability of urban dwellers is no longer a simple matter of ‘bricks and mortar’, but a matter of human satisfaction with different urban attributes. Building livable cities and neighborhoods are also hinged on the fact that urban designs and structures can be very influential in the life of a city, its dwellers and indeed to the building of community itself. The present study examined the Quality of Life (QOL) and livability in selected neighborhood s in Port Harcourt with a view to highlighting the factors that predict quality of life and livability in the study area. The study adopted quasi experimental research design since there was no manipulation of the variables under study. The sample size consists of 396 heads of households who were randomly selected during the study period. The Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA), a variant of multiple regression techniques was used in data analysis. The result of the study revealed that monthly income, occupation and level of education are important factors predicting quality of life and livability in the study area. The joint explanation (R2) of the three independent variables (occupation, monthly income and level of education) on neighborhood safety is (.537). It was also observed that, monthly income and education status collectively account for significant variation in perceived neighborhood livability for housing in the three (3) neighborhood s in Port Harcourt. When the level of relationship between neighborhood population density and the independent variables of income, level of education and occupation were examined, it was also observed that there is indeed a bivariate relationship between them. The R2 value of 0.693 was obtained implying that 69% variation in the dependent variable is explained by the independent variables. Since neighborhood livability and QOL focuses on the manner in which urban spaces work, the interface between public and private realms and their relationships with the natural environment, including built and social heritage, planning must strive to produce livability cities by crating governance model that supports the civic ecology through participatory democracy. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.29322/ijsrp.8.12.2018.p8451 |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1218/ijsrp-p8451.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.29322/ijsrp.8.12.2018.p8451 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
