ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a summary of study findings and their public policy implications for improving the quality of metropolitan living environments in the industrialized world. It discusses the comparative influence of clusters of independent variables and their impact on the global aspects of the quality of life indexes. The chapter examines suburbia indicates that, with few exceptions, in the United States and in the Netherlands environmental factors have little effect on women’s overall sense of happiness or psychological well-being. In Israel there is a strong combined impact of social and environmental independent variables, while in the Netherlands only environmental influences affect dependent variable satisfaction. Thus, for the United States, and to a large extent for the Netherlands, results indicate that the relationships between the theory-related clusters of independent variables and overall satisfaction indexes corroborate the findings of other recent studies.
