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082 _aP TH-2274
_bSHU
100 _aShukla, Prasenjit (PP0007216)
_963128
245 0 _aUnderstanding the concept of liveability index with context to Indian cities (Also available on CD)
260 _c2018
300 _axvii,74,xiii-xxivp.,CD-ROM
505 _aContents Undertaking i Certificate iii Acknowledgments v Abstract vii Table of contents ix List of figures xiii List of tables xv List of Abbreviations xvii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Aim 1 1.3 Objectives 2 1.4 Scope and Limitation 2 1.5 Methodology 2 1.6 Expected outcome 4 2 Understanding Liveability 5 2.1 Liveability versus Quality of Life versus Standard of Living 5 2.2 Defining the terminologies 5 2.3 Correlation 7 2.4 Subjective factors for Liveability 7 3 Understanding Global Indices 9 3.1 Canadian Index of Well-being 9 3.2 Better Life Index 12 3.3 Global Liveability Report 15 3.4 Social Progressive Index 16 3.5 Quality of Living Survey 18 3.6 Happy Planet Index 18 3.7 Outcomes from the Global Approach 19 4 The Indian approach to Liveability 21 4.1 Liveability Standards by Government of India 21 4.2 GoI’s approach for Liveability Index 23 4.3 The Subjectivity 24 4.4 The Missing Indices 25 4.4.1 What makes a City more Liveable? 25 4.5 Deconstructing the Indices 26 4.5.1 The Urban Parameters 26 4.6 Linkages between Liveability standards (GoI) and urban parameters 31 4.7 Need for Subjectivity 33 5 Ease of Measuring Liveability (EOML) 35 5.1 Introduction 35 5.2 Methodological Framework 36 5.2.1 Selection of Cities 37 5.2.2 Data efficiency and Data Computation for EOML 37 6 EOML analysis for Udaipur 43 6.1 Udaipur City Profile 43 6.1.1 Demographic profile 43 6.1.2 Administrative Boundary 43 6.2 EMOL Report Card 43 6.2.1 Approach 44 6.2.2 Limitation 44 6.2.3 Pillar wise Scorecard 44 6.3 Inferences 54 7 EOML analysis for Ahmedabad 57 7.1 Ahmedabad City Profile 57 7.1.1 Demographic profile 57 7.1.2 Administrative boundary 57 7.2 EOML Report Card 58 7.2.1 Approach 58 7.2.2 Limitation 58 7.2.3 Pillar wise Scorecard 59 7.3 Inferences 67 8 Conclusion 71 8.1 Recommendations 73 9 References xiii Appendix 1: List of People during Key Person Interview xv Appendix 2: List of Global Indices xvii Appendix 3: EOML scorecard for Udaipur and Ahmedabad xix
700 _aBandopadhyay, Saswat (Guide)
_947425
890 _aIndia
891 _aFP-PG
891 _a2016 Batch