Studies and research on the quality of urban life are witnessing a renewed interest not only of the
research community, but also through policies and attention in urban management and planning for the search
of how to make cities more competitive and maintain the development and promotion of the population wellbeing. In this manuscript, we discuss how to assess the quality of urban life by integrating the Delphi method
with one of the multi-criteria analysis techniques in decision-making, the process of hierarchical analysis is
sequential (AHP). The city of M’Sila, Algeria, was selected as a case-study, where we proposed a set of criteria
for assessing the quality of life in the city, engaging its actors using the Delphi method and selecting six factors
(public services, education, environment, culture, recreation, health, security, and protection). The first stage, in
the second phase, I use a sequential method of the AHP pyramid analysis, the third stage came to translate the
results obtained in a GIS environment, to derive the quality of the life map. One of the most important results
follows: (7%) of the study-area achieves: high-quality of life with space (3.77 km²), (9%) average quality of
life with an area (4.70 km²) and (14%) moderate quality of life with an area (6.98 km²) and (19%) low quality
of life with space (9.75 km²) and (51%). It achieved the least quality of life with an area (26.02 km²). Map
results can be used to identify areas that need to be upgraded or to choose the best areas for accommodation.
Citation
SALIM Dehimi ,
Makhloufi HADJAB ,
, (2019-12-03), EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN URBAN AREA BY USING THE DELPHI METHOD. A CASE STUDY OF M'SILA CITY/ALGERIA, Revue Roumaine de Géographie,
Vol:63, Issue:2, pages:193-202, Publishing House of the Romanian Academy
