透過生活品質的衡量可為地區及城市進行生活環境診斷並檢討過去的施政策略，以提供未來空間及都市規劃制定生活品質相關政策之參考。本文首先回顧客觀及主觀衡量的生活品質之相關文獻，然後以美國進行五十多年並在世界各國城市進行跨國比較的「底特律地區研究」為基礎，針對台北市的人文社經及地理環境特性進行修改後，以台北市十二個行政區進行實證研究，調查331位台北市民實際生活品質之感受，並使用線性結構關係模式分析台北市主觀生活品質之間的因果關係。本文發現行政區別、婚姻、年齡、學歷、收入的個人特質會影響各領域的滿意程度；使用線性結構關係模式分析台北市生活品質關係模式，其驗證結果模式適合度良好，其中，主要影響滿意度的因素是安全評價、市政服務評價，其次為鄰里關係和社區評價；而鄰里環境評價和鄰里認同則影響力小或不具影響。由此可知，居民最關心的是自身的安全和市政服務，也是影響台北市生活品質最重要的因素。
Quality of Life (QOL) measurement can be applied as an environmental diagnosis of policy strategies and is the foundation for drafting future spatial and urban planning policies. This study first conducts a review of QOL literature. The extensively adopted Detroit Area Study (DAS), used as the basic theoretical structure in this study, is modified to meet Taipei's social, cultural and geographical contexts. A field survey of 331 Taipei residents is performed to determine residents' subjective measurements of their QOL. A Linear Structure Relation (LISREL) analysis is performed to investigate the causal relationships among QOL variables. Survey results indicate that districts, marriage, age, education, and income affect various satisfaction domains. The goodness of fit of the LISREL is acceptable. Survey results of the LISREL model suggest that the principal factors influencing satisfaction are safety evaluation, public service evaluation, neighborhood relationships and community evaluation. However, the influence of neighborhood environmental evaluation and neighborhood attachments is trivial, almost irrelevant. Restated, respondents are most concerned with personal safety and public services, which are also the principal factors affecting Taipei's QOL.
