Indicadores urbanos y calidad de vida

Abstract

Cities are considered as spaces in which different activities that generate wealth are concentrated; These are also headquarters where a large number of people, buildings and activities are grouped together to help meet the needs of the population. For this reason, the present research aims to perform a quantitative analysis of quality of life in the cities of Ecuador, which represent the provincial capitals with the exception of Galapagos, and additionally Manta, through the use of twenty-six quantitative indicators taken from official sources Of Ecuador, that allow to determine the quality of life of the cities; For which a weighting by quartiles of each indicator is made, which allows to classify the cities under the criteria of very good, good, regular and poor quality of life. The results show that cities with a very good quality of life are Quito, Cuenca, Ambato, Riobamba, Loja and Zamora, while the cities with poor quality of life are Francisco de Orellana, Babahoyo, Guaranda and Nueva Loja.