Quality of Life and Diverse Temporalities amid Fast Urbanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 427-448
Author(s):  
Mihye Cho
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Quality Of Life Research ◽  
Life Evaluation ◽  
Critical Issues

Abstract Quality-of-life research leans toward measuring placed-based attributes of a locale while less attention has been given to understanding what people mean by quality of life. This paper reiterates that quality-of-life research is intrinsically about juxtaposing life conditions and life evaluation, thereby unveiling critical issues immanent in a society (Castells, 1983). This paper draws on interviews conducted in public housing neighbourhoods in Singapore to examine the colloquial meanings of quality of life and the normative connotations that people attach to it. It unveils the efforts to reconcile fast and slow and discusses the different temporalities underpinning life domains and how spatial planning could engage with the issue of time to improve quality of life. The Singapore case is insightful to contemplate the challenges of reconciling the increasing needs of going slower amid an accelerated pace of life, which is a contradictory yet pervasive characteristic of life in contemporary capitalist societies.

scholarly journals Quality of Life Research in Saskatoon, Canada: Fifteen years of co-creating knowledge and action in the community

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Holden ◽  
Nazeem Muhajarine
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Quality Of Life Research ◽  
Qualitative Understanding ◽  
Community Outcomes ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Evaluation And Monitoring ◽  
Ongoing Evaluation

The quality of life research program was envisioned as an undertaking to achieve deep and balanced (quantitative and qualitative) understanding of the community and to use this knowledge to guide change to improve quality of life for all in Saskatoon. To accomplish this, the program set its sights on undertaking participatory action research, soliciting meaningful and frequent input from the community at large not only on research questions and methods but also on the implication of results, and disseminating knowledge widely. The program was intended to be longterm and longitudinal (repeated cohorts) to allow ongoing evaluation and monitoring of community outcomes, and continued guidance for ways of improving quality of life.

Widening the horizons: Information space of the library for the blind as the resource to improve quality of life of visually impaired people

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Novikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Special Library

The special library acts as the cultural and educational center for visually impaired people, and as the center for continuing education. The multifunctional performance of the library is substantiated. The joint projects accomplished in cooperation with theatres and museums and aimed at integrating the visually impaired people into the society are described. Advanced training projects for the library professionals accomplished in 2018 are discussed.

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