Urban Quality Configuration Indexes. The Case of the Federal District, Brazil

Abstract

There has been great progress in the search for understanding and analysis of urban systems, especially with the development of indices and indicators that express the characteristics and behavior of fragments of the city. This study seeks to fill the gaps still persisting in that field with a proposal to "stitch" important urban indices, surveyed from large configurational dimension, as a way to compose a new vision of the city. The object of study is the Federal District, Brazil's capital, because of its segmented configuration, is a great experiment, because each segment of the city has intrinsic characteristics. The selected dimensions show in a general way that the urban center of the Federal District, composed of the Pilot Plan and its surroundings, shows better results for all indices surveyed, while worst living conditions are found further away from the center become the. Despite this trend, many peripheral cities, which have the stigma of low status, have good results in certain respects.

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