Câmara Municipal do Porto, in collaboration with CEMPRE, is implementing an information system on the quality of life in Porto. Before the presentation of the model that we developed, we discuss the concept of quality of life and present some theoretical contributions relevant for the project....

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are an essential tool to integrate and manage large amounts of data (statistical and graphical) and to visualise the modelling efforts of the contemporary city. The further use of spatial analysis methods, in particular the exploratory analysis of data and...