General rating of city appeal

The general rating of city appeal — is a method for calculating and comparing the city appeal and urban environment, based on determining their number values and the threshold of appeal. The method is based on collection, description and assessment of qualitative and quantitative indices. Quantitative indices are represented by annual statistical data on the cities of the Russian Federation, whereas qualitative characteristics are represented by own properties of a city. The purpose of the rating is to carry out an integrated collective and public analysis of the urban environment, compare urban environments, analyze strengthens and weaknesses and to prepare information for managerial analysis and to make personnel decisions.

The general rating of city appeal for Russian cities was designed by the Russian Union of Engineers in 2012. The rating was designed due to the objective need to conduct a complex analysis and assess disproportions in distribution of population, labour resources and production capacity in the Russian Federation.

The purpose of the rating is to carry out an unbiased and complex appraisal of Russian cities in terms of the criteria which determine the quality level of all spheres of activity of the population, city economy and urban environment.

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The methodology of appraisal of city appeal is based on quality assessment of elements of the city economy and comfort of living of citizens. The main method is a procedure borrowed from qualimetry, in which several approaches to quantitative appraisal of quality were developed.

To compare various properties measured in scales different in range and dimension ${\displaystyle K_{i}}$, a relative dimensionless ratio, is used to show the degree of approximation of ${\displaystyle Qi}$, (absolute property indicator) to the maximum ${\displaystyle Q^{max}}$, and minimum ${\displaystyle Q^{min}}$. The relative ratio is described as the following relationship ${\displaystyle Ki=f{(Q^{min},\ldots ,Q_{i},\ldots ,Q^{max})}}$, which may be represented as a normalized function as follows ${\displaystyle K_{i}={\frac {Q_{i}-Q^{min}}{Q^{max}-Q^{min}}}}$

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