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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 68-86 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1 2020 |
Keywords
- GIS
- Landsat
- Latin America
- Principal Components Analysis
- Remote Sensing
- Urban Development
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)