This paper offers a novel contribution to an evidence-based assessment of the attractiveness features (or perceived qualities) of cities or urban neighbourhoods, based on a quantitative evaluation of such areas by introducing and applying what is called ‘city-love’ analysis. To put this new concept in context, we offer first a concise overview of related and complementary notions (e.g. happiness, satisfaction, well-being, quality of life, contentment). Then we propose a new departure for attractiveness research pertaining to micro-based information on residents or users of cities by introducing the notion of a ‘city-love production function’. This function expresses the ability of cities to enhance the love or appreciation for a city or its neighbourhoods through an appropriate combination of five specific ‘city capital’ constituents. We test the validity of this so-called ‘Pentagon’ approach to city love by means of the city-love production function using a multivariate econometric model based on extensive heterogeneous statistical data on municipalities in Sweden and complemented with cell phone data. Our results are confronted with empirical ‘big data’ on the appreciation of Swedish places – and their characteristics – taken from social media platforms. The study offers also interesting findings from an advanced spatial-econometric and multilevel modelling approach. Our estimations show that the concept of the city-love production function allows us to quantitatively uncover important determinants of citizens’ love for their local environment.

本文通过引入和应用所谓的“城市热爱”分析，对这些地区进行了定量评估，从而为基于证据的城市或城市社区吸引力特征（或感知品质）评估提供了新颖的贡献。为了将这个新概念放在上下文中，我们首先简要概述相关和互补的概念（例如幸福，满意，幸福，生活质量，满足感）。然后，我们通过引入“城市热爱生产函数”的概念，提出了一个有关与城市居民或用户微观信息有关的吸引力研究的新思路。'。此功能通过适当组合五个特定的“城市首都”组成部分来表达城市增强对城市或其附近地区的爱或欣赏的能力。我们测试这种所谓的“五角大楼”的有效性通过使用基于瑞典市政当局广泛的异构统计数据并辅以手机数据的多元计量经济模型，通过城市爱情生产函数来实现城市爱情。我们的结果面临着来自社交媒体平台的关于瑞典名胜及其特征的经验性“大数据”。这项研究还从先进的空间计量经济学和多层次建模方法中提供了有趣的发现。我们的估计表明，城市热爱生产函数的概念使我们能够定量地发现公民对当地环境的热爱的重要决定因素。