Analyzing the Unequal Regional Urban Economy: Classification of the Heterogeneity of the Metropolitan Area of Xalapa under the Territory and Economic Dispersion in Period Prepandemic 2010-2020

Resumen

The city and its territory present broad and complex intellectual challenges that belong to the study of urban planning. However, it is not intended to discredit the work, techniques, and methodologies, but to show that the help of a disciplinary dialogue provides the urban planning researcher as well as the student to visualize urban phenomena from another perspective and maintain a different vocabulary that allows validating the studies in the territory. This work aims to present a statistical model that shows the relationship between economic units and size of the territory in the Metropolitan area of Xalapa whose purpose is to demonstrate that urban phenomena can be measured using validated statistical techniques in conjunction with urban planning research. The hypothesis is assumed that economic activity is not distributed homogeneously in the territory of the Xalapa Metropolitan Zone, through a multivariate statistical analysis, it is demonstrated that there are 3 groups of municipalities with similar characteristics, establishing the relationship between concentration of activities in territorial extensions, which concludes that there is no regional economy but that the region is unequal and that they can be classified based on the mix of economic and territorial variables for studies with an urban-spatial approach.