Place Utility and Happiness Index in Different Regions of Mexico City
Is there relationship between happiness and place utility within different areas of Mexico City?
Fieldwork question and geographic context.
This essay will investigate if there is a relationship between happiness and the place utility of La Condesa and San Pedro Martir, then by comparing the results of each investigation we will come to a conclusion of whether this relationship does exist and how it changes depending on the place in which it’s located within the city.
Mexico city is a city in which the geography affects a lot different areas throughout the city, for example, the quality of an entire colony changes depending on which district is located, there are a total of 16 districts in the city, each one of these with different features and wealth, it is variedly distributed along all of these.
http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn119-55.htm
However we will only focus in two districts: Cuauhtémoc (La condesa) and Tlalpan (San Pedro Martir), In these we will look at the different factors of place utility and if any of these have a relation or affect the happiness of people living there.
First we need to look at the geographic context of the two districts.
La Condesa:
La condesa is and old neighborhood, located in Cuauhtémoc at the center of the city, with and huge over population, most of the people living here belong to the upper class socio-economically speaking. It has lots of recreational places, and can be considered a good place to live, this is why the surveys were made in this neighborhood, specifically in the streets surrounding the Parque Mexico we will look further on these surveys further on.
San Pedro Martir:
San Pedro Martir is a colony located in Tlalpan, at the south of the city, it’s a neighborhood mainly populated by the working class of the society, Its mostly a residential area with some small stores such as bakeries, stores (food, junk food) etc.
At first San Pedro was a small village located outside the city, but
Fieldwork question and geographic context.
This essay will investigate if there is a relationship between happiness and the place utility of La Condesa and San Pedro Martir, then by comparing the results of each investigation we will come to a conclusion of whether this relationship does exist and how it changes depending on the place in which it’s located within the city.
Mexico city is a city in which the geography affects a lot different areas throughout the city, for example, the quality of an entire colony changes depending on which district is located, there are a total of 16 districts in the city, each one of these with different features and wealth, it is variedly distributed along all of these.
http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn/sn119-55.htm
However we will only focus in two districts: Cuauhtémoc (La condesa) and Tlalpan (San Pedro Martir), In these we will look at the different factors of place utility and if any of these have a relation or affect the happiness of people living there.
First we need to look at the geographic context of the two districts.
La Condesa:
La condesa is and old neighborhood, located in Cuauhtémoc at the center of the city, with and huge over population, most of the people living here belong to the upper class socio-economically speaking. It has lots of recreational places, and can be considered a good place to live, this is why the surveys were made in this neighborhood, specifically in the streets surrounding the Parque Mexico we will look further on these surveys further on.
San Pedro Martir:
San Pedro Martir is a colony located in Tlalpan, at the south of the city, it’s a neighborhood mainly populated by the working class of the society, Its mostly a residential area with some small stores such as bakeries, stores (food, junk food) etc.
At first San Pedro was a small village located outside the city, but