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Residents' perception of the city: the interaction between life and city satisfaction
By analogy with contemporary business practices, nowadays, city managers need to become “residents’ – centric”, as competition for residents and resources increases. The ultimate goal of such an approach is to boost the level of satisfaction with the city. Several researches raised the problem of city satisfaction conceptualization and measurement. To contribute to this discussion, we develop an assessment method, which takes into consideration subjective and situational nature of satisfaction. To test the method we have carried out an empirical research, employing the representative sample of the residents for a large Russian city, Perm. The results allow for the illustration of the cumulative and hierarchical nature of city satisfaction, and, hopefully, contribute both to the theoretical aspects and practicalities of place management.