“…Further research analyzing the relationship between LST, the presence and structure of green spaces and socioeconomic level of the population can help identify city areas with high need of heat mitigation intervention (Duncan et al, 2019). For Xalapa, it has been found that public urban green spaces show a clustered pattern, with no presence of these spaces in almost half of its neighborhoods, and that the lower number, surface, and percent of greens spaces were associated with areas of low socioeconomic level (Carmona-Ortega, 2021). Woefully, this is a common scenario in Mexican (Reyes-Plata and Gabriel-Bolea, 2018;Romo-Aguilar and de, 2008) and other Latin American cities (Gómez and Velázquez, 2018;Inostroza et al, 2016;Reyes-Päcke and Figueroa-Aldunce, 2010).…”