City Liveability Index

DIRECTED RESEARCH PROJECT

CITY LIVABILITY INDEX Understanding the concept of City Livability Index in the context of Indian Cities

Guide: Prof. Saswat Bandyopadhyay

Prasenjit Shukla | PP0007216

PROJECT STRUCTURE

AIM & Objectives

Literature Review

Way Forward

• Aim, Objective

• Global Indices

• Indicator Score

• Scope of the Study

• Inferences

• Data Reliability • City class comparison

Methodology

Selection of Cities

• Stages of assessment

• Case 1: Udaipur

• Expected Outcome

Understanding the concept of City Livability Index in the context of Indian Cities

• Case 2: Ahmedabad

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DRP Brief Aim

Understanding the concept of City Livability Index in the context of Indian Cities Objectives 1. To understands the concept of City Liveability in the context of global and Indian scenario.

2. To review the various methods of city’s performance measurement and their applications through literature.

3. To critically review the city livability index and criteria proposed by GoI. 4. Evaluate the relevance of Liveability Standards in the context of Indian cities.

Methodology To understands the concept of City Liveability in the context of global and Indian scenario.

O.1

• Exploring the meaning of Liveability through numerous sources.

• Understanding the difference and linkages among Quality of Life, Quality of Living, Standard of living and Liveability. Also, finding the factors which contributes to the liveability.

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Methodology To review the various methods of city’s performance measurement and their applications through literature.

O.2

• Assessing all quantitative measures of determining city’s performance such as OECD, Mercer living survey, EIU liveability etc.

• Identification of key indicators through creating a database for all global indices and their parameters.

To critically review the city livability index and criteria proposed by GoI.

O.3

• Analysis of Liveability standards indicators proposed by GoI. • Reviewing critical arguments against Liveability Standards through literature.

• Identification of potential parameters which are missing out in GoI liveability standards.

Evaluate the relevance of Liveability Standards in the context of Indian cities.

O.4

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Justification for city selection based on relevant parameters.

Understanding data reliability for all indicators Calculating score for available data.

Comparison of cities to understand application of indices.

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Liveability vs. Quality of Life vs. Standard of Living

Source: Pixabay.com

Liveability vs. Quality of Life vs. Standard of Living Inter-relationship

LIVEABILITY • Liveability can be define as a phenomenon to achieve state of happiness.

• It contributes to both quality of life and standard of living.

• Liveability can be under the quality of life or vice versa but both are not supported by income alone.

QUALITY OF LIFE • Standard indicators of the quality of life include not only wealth and employment but also the built environment, physical and mental health, education, recreation and leisure time, and social belonging (Sen, 1993).

STANDARD OF LIVING • Refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods, and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area.

• Includes factors such as income, employment availability, class disparity, poverty rate etc.

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Liveability

Standard of Living

Quality of Life

Global Indices Canadian Index of Well Being

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OECD | Better Life Index

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Source: OECD Report 2017

Review 3: Liveability standards in cities | GoI

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Source: Liveability Standards 2017, MoUD

Global Indices Comparison City Level

Country Level Number of Parameters Vs Global Indices

16 14 12

10 8 6 4 2

0 Liveability Canadian Better Life Quality of Quality of Life City's Standards Index of WellIndex Living Survey Survey Prosperity being Index Understanding the concept of City Livability Index in the context of Indian Cities

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Global Liveability Report

Social Progress Index

Happy Planet Human Index Development Index

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Common Parameters

Common Global Parameters

Safety & Security

Governance

Infrastructure

Economy/Employment

Health

Identity & Culture

Environment

Quality of Life

Education

Work Life Balance

Housing

Community

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Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Global Indices | Inferences

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Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Global Indices | Inferences

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Source: Rawgraphs.io

Excluded Parameters from GoI Liveability

Safety & Security

Governance

Infrastructure

Economy/Employment

Health

Identity & Culture

Environment

Quality of Life

Education

Work Life Balance

Housing

Community

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Study Area & Way Forward

Identification of Study Area • This research intends to further explore the relevance of such city livability index for an atypical mid-sized Indian city.

• Small and medium Indian cities are well known for their poor spatial data culture.

• Analyze the relevance of such CLIs in the context of a mid-sized Indian city.

• In order to ensure that comparison of cities is done with similarly placed peers, the cities have been placed in 5 groups.

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DRP Brief

Ahmedabad (5)

Population (lakhs) 64 4.5

AHMEDABAD

Udaipur (2)

Area (sq. km) Density (person/sq.km) 468

11895

56.9

7925

?

5th MOST POLLUTED CITY IN INDIA

4.6%

UDAIPUR

City

Population Growth rate

THE MOST LIVABLE

FOREIGN TOURIST ARRIVAL (FTA) Destination

1.4%

Population Growth rate

Source: WHO AQI

Q.

Are we ready to fix standards for smart cities even before a single one has been set up?�

Is it fair to rank cities on the common weightage of indicators ?

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Source: Smart Cities Profile

Way Forward Assessment of Application of Liveability Indicators on Selected Cities

1. Government authorized data base.

2. Actual Population Considered

Comparison of both cities to understand application of indices on different classes of cities.

3. Updated Periodically A

High Reliability

1

and

2

and

1

3

3

Eg. Census

Understanding Data Reliability for all Indicators. (Measuring Transparency)

B

Intermediate (B)

1

2

or

1

or 2

Eg. NSSO

C

.Calculating scores of indicators based on available data (any reliability)

Intermediate (C)

Eg. Media, Study published by an institute

D

Low Reliability Eg. Word of Mouth

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NSSO: National Sample Survey Organisation

NONE

or 3

or 2

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WAY FORWARD: Research Timeline STAGE 1

STAGE 3

Aim, Objectives, Scope, Methodology, Literature Review, Study Area Identification

Draft Report including detailed assessment and findings from site visits for selected cities.

Literature Review (Jan’17)

(Feb-March’17)

(Jan-Feb’17)

(April-May’17)

Primary and Secondary Data

Secondary Data STAGE 2 Assessment of Liveability with context to Global Indexes.

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Final Report & Working Paper

THANK YOU Prasenjit.Shukla.mplan16@cept.ac.in