Abstract
The main objective of this article is to determine the quality of life of Polonia living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), with particular emphasis on urban quality, which influences their assessment of the standard of living in this city. The presented results of the research are based on a survey questionnaire conducted with the participation of 583 respondents. The respondents evaluated, among others: accessibility to recreational tourism in the city, public transport, possibilities of finding a job, accessibility to housing and quality of the natural environment. Assessment of the selected indicators was correlated with the application of the statistical coefficient of the chi-squared test with particular sociodemographic characteristics of the examined respondents (with age, place of residence of the respondents (Toronto, suburbs) and their duration of residence in the GTA). On the basis of the formulated research hypotheses and conducted studies, it can be concluded—among others—that the satisfaction level with regard to accessibility to housing increases with age, that people living in the GTA suburbs rate accessibility to transportation lower than people living in Toronto and that people living in the GTA for more than 20 years rate accessibility to tourism, leisure and relaxation lower than people living in the GTA for a period shorter than 20 years.
Highlights
The city is an urban space where the exchange of products, goods, services, information, sensations and experiences between different groups of users of the same space has been taking place for centuries
Among the problems discussed by researchers, we find issues related to various aspects of urban living conditions: architectural form and urban layout, morphology, social composition, functional equipment and efficiency of the city as an economic unit, quality of the urban landscape, living conditions of the residents and their access to culture, access to tourism and recreation in the city and image and perception of the city [9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]
The research hypothesis assuming that people living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) suburbs rate accessibility to transport lower than those living in Toronto itself is true
Summary
The city is an urban space where the exchange of products, goods, services, information, sensations and experiences between different groups of users of the same space has been taking place for centuries. The functioning of the city, its spatial and social structure and governance process belong to a group of issues that are frequently addressed in works published in different disciplines: urban geography, urban planning, spatial planning, history, economics, urban policy, sociology and cultural studies [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. Urban space itself is considered to be a “distinctive fragment of geographical space” [21], which “is formed by people, social groups, institutions, activity systems, etc.” [2] It is created as a result of the use of the city-forming factors, positively translating into the targets of the individuals seeking their place on Earth. The reference to space and place in which quality of life is analysed is presented by a definition of the
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