Assessing Quality of Life Across Mexico City Using Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors

Gustavo Alberto Ovando Montejo and Amy E. Frazier
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Gustavo Alberto Ovando Montejo: Utah State University, Logan, USA
Amy E. Frazier: Arizona State University, USA

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 2020, vol. 11, issue 3, 68-86

Abstract: Urban quality of life studies increasingly incorporate both socio-economic and environmental factors into their analyses, yet few studies have explored how the socio-economic factors relate to the environmental conditions or how to statistically describe the spatial patterns of quality of life as they relate to the socio-economic and environmental structure of a city. This paper evaluates a quality of life index for Mexico City that takes into account both social and environmental factors through a factor analysis and explores the relationship between the contributing environmental and social factors through a regression analysis. The spatial patterns of quality of life across the city are then examined using a geographic clustering technique. Results indicate that both socio-economic and environmental segregation characterize the physical structure of Mexico City and suggest that the peripheral areas of the city suffer from poor socio-economic conditions even though they have positive environmental conditions.

Date: 2020
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