**3. Methodology**

The methodology applied in this work uses fieldwork, GIS and statistical analysis as shows Figure 2.

**Figure 2.** Methodological process.

Fieldwork permitted to obtain general information about parks, measure the quality factors of parks and take photographs. Use of a Geographical Information System (GIS) has made it possible to digitalize the elements that exist in the parks and their limits, geolocate the data regarding the population registered in the Municipal Register of Inhabitants, and select the target population; in other words, that lives within 300 m or less of an access

point of any of the parks and, finally, obtain part of the information needed to develop the MCE model's factors using spatial analysis operations and implementing them.

Finally, statistical analysis was carried out of the sample taken from the selection of inhabitants registered at a distance equivalent to or within 300 m of a park access point to characterize the socio-demographic perspective of the potential users of the said space.

With the set of indicators, both direct and indirect, that characterize the quality of the urban parks, a hierarchical and weighted Multi-Criteria Evaluation Model was designed, which has allowed us to obtain the PQI.
