As an urban planner and researcher, my interests were always focused on the subjective and objective perspective of the Quality of Life. I strongly agree that life satisfaction is interlinked with current complexity as well as future's uncertainty. European Barometers are good sources of information providing a picture of how cities demonstrate improvements or not.
Download the article that was published in January 2016 from European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information....
Feneri A.M.