DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS APPLIED IN THE ESTIMATION OF AN IDEAL CITY PROFILE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDY IN GUADALAJARA DE BUGA (COLOMBIA)

The level of community development is measured with different indicators that guide, among other factors, knowledge of the progress of a region. The scarce availability of resources, particularly in the developing countries, makes necessary to establish efficiently the projects-programs that formulated and executed must be to improve the conditions of the community. This research proposes a methodology for the identification of those project-programs that a community must carry out in order to reach the level of another one under ideal conditions. To do that, information taken was on indicators available in institutional repositories of capital cities, special and one category in Colombia, which are municipalities that hold the highest rating for infrastructure development and other factors. Fifty-seven indicators selected were from the social progress index and the municipal performance measure with data on unsatisfied basic needs, welfare basics and opportunities. The dimensional analysis DA method used was considering the attributes Type of indicator, municipality and year of the information found. Subsequently, the indicators with the highest similarity value selected were for the ideal city profile (S). The DA applied was to Guadalajara de Buga, municipality category 2, and the indicators furthest from S identified were in standard deviations. Finally, the execution of the projects proposed in the Municipal Development Plan verified was and other types of interventions for the improvement of the municipality identified were.