Urban indicators and their influence on the urban sustainable development of metropolitan Huancayo - Peru

Abstract

The purpose of the research was to identify the influence of urban indicators on the urban sustainable
development of metropolitan Huancayo, Junín region - Peru, including its specific city components and
territory configuration, management of natural resources, social cohesion and economic development
in urban sustainable development. Three methodologies were applied: the first of evolutionary mapping
indicators and the census information system, the second was the testing of methodological records of
the integrated system of urban indicators with the urban plans made from 1961 to 2011 and the third
methodology for estimating the level of sustainable development of territories, Biogram 2008 prepared
by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). Achieving the following results: the 1961 bulk density of 115.87 dpHa has decreased steadily reaching in 2011 until 93, 67 dpHa, the
contrasting urban plans made from 1961 to 2011, from 14 indicators obtained, only 1 applies, noting that
13 indicators do not apply due to methodological flaws, which do not allow monitoring to be followed
due to lack of reliability, finally the biogram shows us the trend toward urban stability. The results show
the practical usefulness of the urban indicators, thus demonstrating the degree of influence in the current
and predictable situation of the urban habitat that, despite having a vegetative growth in an inertial and
spontaneous way, lead to increase the sustainability in the medium term.