Assessing Urban Accessibility in Monterrey, Mexico: A Transferable Approach to Evaluate Access to Main Destinations at the Metropolitan and Local Levels

Cities demand urgent transformations in order to become more affordable, livable, sustainable, walkable and comfortable spaces. Hence, important changes have be made the way cities are understood, diagnosed planned. The current paper puts urban accessibility into centre of public policy planning agenda, as a transferable approach transform better living environments. To do so, practical example City Monterrey, Mexico, is presented at two scales: metropolitan local level. Both scales analysis measure main destinations using walking cycling transport modes. results demonstrate that levels level divergent, depending on desired destination, well processes (both formal informal) from different areas city. At level, Distrito Tec Area terms assess what extent it can considered part 15 minutes show lacks parameters all for being Nevertheless, there considerable increase when used travelling mode. research project serves an initial understand challenges city levels, by proving useful disaggregated data. Finally, concludes providing general recommendations aimed improve sustainability.