QUALITY OF LIFE: A TOOL FOR PLANNING AND THE PROSPECTIVE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT1

Abstract

The increase in urbanization has shown the need to rethink the role of city planning, since the growth
of cities exceeded their capacities, causing a gradual impoverishment of living conditions. In this
sense, the design of a monitoring system of the quality of life in the city of Pachuca is exposed, once
evidence was found with the construction of a multidimensional index that the living conditions in the
population are heterogeneous and there are areas with strong asymmetries that have resulted in their
marginalization. For this reason, the development of a public policy is supported through a system of
social, economic, institutional and environmental indicators that serve as input to generate planning The increase in urbanization has shown the need to rethink the role of city planning, since the growth
of cities exceeded their capacities, causing a gradual impoverishment of living conditions. In this
sense, the design of a monitoring system of the quality of life in the city of Pachuca is exposed, once
evidence was found with the construction of a multidimensional index that the living conditions in the
population are heterogeneous and there are areas with strong asymmetries that have resulted in their
marginalization. For this reason, the development of a public policy is supported through a system of
social, economic, institutional and environmental indicators that serve as input to generate planning The increase in urbanization has shown the need to rethink the role of city planning, since the growth
of cities exceeded their capacities, causing a gradual impoverishment of living conditions. In this
sense, the design of a monitoring system of the quality of life in the city of Pachuca is exposed, once
evidence was found with the construction of a multidimensional index that the living conditions in the
population are heterogeneous and there are areas with strong asymmetries that have resulted in their
marginalization. For this reason, the development of a public policy is supported through a system of
social, economic, institutional and environmental indicators that serve as input to generate planning The increase in urbanization has shown the need to rethink the role of city planning, since the growth
of cities exceeded their capacities, causing a gradual impoverishment of living conditions. In this
sense, the design of a monitoring system of the quality of life in the city of Pachuca is exposed, once
evidence was found with the construction of a multidimensional index that the living conditions in the
population are heterogeneous and there are areas with strong asymmetries that have resulted in their
marginalization. For this reason, the development of a public policy is supported through a system of
social, economic, institutional and environmental indicators that serve as input to generate planning and prospective in urban development, with the aim of raising living conditions and that the city a
more prosperous and sustainable place.