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

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

Gustavo Alberto Ovando Montejo, Amy E. Frazier
Copyright: © 2020 |Volume: 11 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1947-9654|EISSN: 1947-9662|EISBN13: 9781799806479|DOI: 10.4018/IJAGR.2020070105
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Montejo, Gustavo Alberto Ovando, and Amy E. Frazier. "Assessing Quality of Life Across Mexico City Using Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors." IJAGR vol.11, no.3 2020: pp.68-86. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAGR.2020070105

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Montejo, G. A. & Frazier, A. E. (2020). Assessing Quality of Life Across Mexico City Using Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 11(3), 68-86. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAGR.2020070105

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Montejo, Gustavo Alberto Ovando, and Amy E. Frazier. "Assessing Quality of Life Across Mexico City Using Socio-Economic and Environmental Factors," International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 11, no.3: 68-86. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAGR.2020070105

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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.

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