at present,the living quality of urban areas catches more and more the following artical takes Shandong province as an example and analyzes environmental living conditions in its seventeen different cities First ,an index system for evaluating the quality of urban living environment is established and analytic hierarchy process(AHP) is adopted to impose proper weight to various aspects and indicators ,secondly , make evaluation for the seventeen cities' living environment and make analysis of the finally ,put foward my own suggestion based on the current features and developing trends of different