Geographical classification of quality of life levels in Alexandria Using geographic information systems

Studies concerned with quality of life in urban environments are receiving increasing attention worldwide in various disciplines, aims to improving the quality of life for its population and achieving a decent way of life that elevates and drives them towards sustainable economic and community development. The government seeks to improve the quality of life in Alexandria as one of the most important cultural cities in the world by developing a strategy encompassing all scopes of Egypt. This study depended on inductive analytical methods to extrapolate descriptive and statistical data. It also relied on geographic information systems and remote sensing in producing information layers for quality of life indicators in natural and urban environment, analyzing them spatially, and classifying their levels and their connections to development plans and national projects that were implemented for geographical indicators to measure the quality of life in Alexandria. The study concluded that four levels of quality of life in Alexandria were identified as the following: high quality of life, which was distributed in 31 sheikhs, at 28.8% of the total number of sheikhs in the study area; moderate quality of life prevailing in 34 sheikhs at 28.3%, Low quality of life, which included 20 sheikhs at 16.7%, Very low quality of life distributed in 35 sheikhs at 29.2%. The study culminated a set of proposals and recommendations that will contribute to comprehensively improve the quality of life in sheikhs that suffer from low quality of life toward a better future.