INDICATORS OF URBAN SUSTAINABILITY IN MEXICO

Abstract

The principal objective of this project is to summarize the characteristics that define urban sustainability in Mexican cities; its basic principles and the advantages of their application in the development of future cities, as well as the description of the indicators of urban sustainability that directly affect the development of communities, from households, colonies or neighbourhoods to cities or regions. The project’s method is based on the analysis of bibliographical information and the revision of some practical cases that refer to the development of sustainable indicators in urban environment.Indicators, sustainability, urbanism, development, cities.