The main purpose of this research was to estimate the quality of the residential environment in the selected Slovenian cities in the early twenty-first century with regards to the subjective assessment of the inhabitants. The quality of the residential environment was studied in Ljubljana, Maribor, Koper, Jesenice, and Grosuplje, which represent five different types of urban environments with regards to size, socio-economic characteristics, urban centrality, and the physical geographical characteristics, in their fifteen neighborhoods of distinctive morphological types: areas of single-family houses, historical city centres, neighborhoods of post-WWII older apartment buildings, areas of contemporary apartment buildings. In order to realise the purpose, the following goals were set: to define the term residential environment and determine its spatial levels and main elements, to estimate the quality of individual elements of the residential environment, to estimate the quality of the residential environment as a whole, to reveal the most important factors of the quality of residential environment, to estimate the desire to move, to reveal the residential preferences of the inhabitants and to estimate the importance of the residential environment as one of the quality of life domains. The author carried out the analysis by selected neighbourhoods.

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