The urban environmental quality throught the citizen perspective

Abstract

There are few studies that address the study of urban environmental quality from the perspective of citizens, however, in recent years countries such as Venezuela, Colombia and Spain have used techniques to assess environmental quality from the perspective of citizens, introducing tools and methods proposals for urban planning and quality of life, in which the results have shown the importance of considering the inhabitant as the main reference of environmental quality in cities because it opens the way to the formulation of intervention actions based on their needs, which guarantees their satisfaction and improves the level of quality of urban life. Therefore, the introduction of the concept of urban environmental quality from the citizen perspective in urban management and planning in Mexico, a country that has a significant lag in studies of this nature, is essential to improve urban environmental quality and therefore life. of its inhabitants.

Keywords: Urban environmental quality, quality of urban life, citizen perspective, urban planning.