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The quality of the urban environment around public housing buildings in Montréal: An objective approach based on GIS and multivariate statistical analysis

Apparicio, Philippe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-9342; Séguin, Anne-Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6195-7813 et Naud, Daniel (2008). The quality of the urban environment around public housing buildings in Montréal: An objective approach based on GIS and multivariate statistical analysis Social Indicators Research , vol. 86 , nº 3. pp. 355-380. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-007-9185-4.

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The question of the “insertion” in space of public housing into the surrounding urban environment is not new. It has often been examined from the perspective of the social environment, but more rarely from that of the physical environment and the accessibility of public and private services and facilities. To qualify the immediate urban environment around Montréal’s public housing buildings in its complexity, we are proposing a methodological approach based on the use of several spatial databases in GIS: (1) the Montréal public housing database, (2) individual census data for the Montréal CMA, (3) a satellite image, (4) a land use map, and (5) location data on a series of public and private services and facilities. Use of these spatial data enables us to identify various combinations of advantages and disadvantages within the urban living environment in which Montréal’s public housing buildings have been located, according to three dimensions: the social environment, the physical environment, and the accessibility of services and facilities. Our final results show that only a small proportion of public housing tenants (7%) live in residual spaces, that is, in quite unattractive areas of the city which combine a number of urban disadvantages: a degraded physical environment, a high level of social deprivation, and few or no services and facilities.

Type de document: Article
Mots-clés libres: Urban quality of life; Geographical information systems; Spatial analysis; Public housing; Montréal; Built environment
Centre: Centre Urbanisation Culture Société
Date de dépôt: 09 oct. 2013 22:09
Dernière modification: 03 août 2022 14:43
URI: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/1585

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