Urban influence on public recreation spaces in the Historical Center of Toluca, Mexico

Abstract

The territorial layout of public spaces in the recreation subsystem (psr) plays a role in influencing the way a territory is inhabited, thereby fostering or discouraging social cohesion. This was the purpose of the study on urban proximity in the historic center of Toluca, Mexico. The analysis was conducted under the categories of Structure-Coverage and Modulation-Access. The first one presents quantitative and qualitative data derived from predefined indicators and variables of location, surface area, and variability; the second one is the walkable areas of influence based on psr  accesses. For this purpose, the "Service Scale Method" was applied, which refers to the maximum walkable presented in NOM-001 of the Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development. This demonstrates that the study area has the geographic conditions to function as an "interconnected system" that promote pedestrian traffic in the area.