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An inclusive and prosperous city offers conditions that guarantee universal access to its inhabitants to adequate housing conditions, which implies access to housing with sufficient space for all its inhabitants and good structural quality, located outside areas of non-mitigable risk and with access to basic services.
An inclusive and prosperous city offers access to social support systems, among which health is a basic condition for the comprehensive development of its inhabitants; including the quality of the urban environment and the population's exposure to environmental factors and finally, the capacity of health systems reflected in the well-being of the city's inhabitants.
An inclusive and prosperous city offers access to social support systems, among which is the access to education and cultural opportunities, considering gender gaps and conditions of socioeconomic diversity in terms of income, ethnicities and age ranges.
An inclusive and prosperous city generates and offers opportunities to its inhabitants to access livelihoods and adequate employment, taking advantage of the territorial assets and human capital of its inhabitants.
An inclusive and prosperous city offers access to adequate habitability conditions, which includes access to dynamic public spaces, in environments with a diversity of land use that enhance their use and promote safety conditions.
It is linked to the right to adequate housing and this is the right to live in security, peace and dignity. In this sense, the quality of the home refers to the fact that it must be built with materials that guarantee an adequate structure that does not represent a danger to those who occupy it, either due to the danger of collapse or the toxicity of the construction materials. Likewise, criteria that measure quality are considered: security of tenure, affordability, habitability and accessibility.
It refers to the location of the home offering access to health services. The concept of accessibility is approached from the dimension of geographical order, that is, it is measured based on the time necessary to obtain health care using the usual means of transportation.
Environmental factors directly influence people's health; when exposed to contaminated resources (land, water and air) there is an increase in various diseases. In other words, exposure to negative environmental factors has direct consequences on human health, which is why housing is considered unsuitable when it is located in contaminated or dangerous areas.
It is defined as the average number of years that a person lives in good health. Life expectancy at birth provides a broad perspective related to the field of health in the city, since it reflects the general mortality of the population in the city. A prosperous city seeks to increase the life expectancy of its citizens in order to increase their quality of life.
Housing is considered adequate when it offers educational opportunities understood as proximity to educational centers for early childhood care and development, preschool education, quality technical, professional and higher education centers, as well as other educational facilities such as museums, theaters, stadiums and movie theaters.
Socioeconomic diversity within the same geographical space in cities can have positive effects in terms of social cohesion, opportunities for learning and growth, economic stimulation, cultural diversity, equity and social justice. Promoting coexistence and inclusion of people from different socioeconomic levels can contribute to building more equitable, cohesive and prosperous cities.
A greater diversity of people with different educational levels within the same geographical space in cities can have positive effects in terms of complementarity of skills, innovation, diversity of perspectives, social mobility and community strengthening. Educational diversity can offer opportunities for social inclusion, social mobility and economic progress for those with lower educational levels.
It refers to the location of the home offering access to public space. The two main roles that a public space has are to provide a space for healthy social interaction and to provide an environment suitable for air quality (WHO, 2012). A prosperous city has sufficient open public space that is easily accessible to its population and is appropriately distributed. Parks, civic parks, squares, recreational green areas and public areas of urban facilities (such as public sports centers) can be considered as elements of public spaces.
It refers to the space that cities have to develop different activities, giving people space with sufficient public space, platforms and squares that allow social cohesion and interaction.
The security and protection that a city can provide guarantees or threatens the personal integrity of a person and his or her rights; in this sense, crime negatively affects the city. This is why local governments must guarantee that citizens' rights are protected against crime, violence and aggression. A prosperous city seeks to increase the quality of life of its inhabitants through better security management that leads to a reduction in homicides and thefts.
Having a compact city with greater proximity to service and commercial units can have advantages in terms of land use efficiency, accessibility to services, promotion of the local economy, social cohesion and sustainability. This can contribute to a better quality of life and greater sustainability in urban development.
A city designed for well-being offers access to employment opportunities. A prosperous city seeks to reduce unemployment to lead the economy on a path of growth with better opportunities for its inhabitants.
As the general purpose of this Scoreboard is to interpret the results against the inclusion potential that each block of each city has by indicator and then the respective aggregates by dimension and thematic area until reaching the total for the city. For this, it is not enough to simply express the results from 0 to 100 once they are standardized or to weight them by the population of the block. It is also important to have a reference scale that allows establishing the meaning of the potential for inclusion that is totaled for each of the mentioned cases.
