Perception of health and accessibility: an approach to support projects for urban public spaces
A percepção de saúde e acessibilidade: uma abordagem para apoiar projetos de espaços públicos urbanos
Urban public spaces are conceived within certain technical standards, which would meet people’s needs. According to users’ perception, that does not match all the time with the given arrangement, which may lead to rejection or misuse. In this article, the approach to analysis of projects for urban public spaces associates the perception of its users’ health with accessibility that these spaces can offer. This becomes a support for efficacy analysis of projects as part of a social inclusion policy. The approach associates an international functionality, incapacity and health classification to a multi-criteria analysis of these factors through interviews with involved population, using Likert scale, where aspects considered as accessibility barriers or facilitators of these spaces are evaluated. The results of the case studied in Belém, Brazil showed, for example, that the understanding that people have on the circulation environment regarding barriers or facilitators is not always determined by difficulties related to their performance in actions and that an inadequate project may be a limiting factor to accessibility, even for people without a diagnosed disability.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract used with permission of the Brazilian Transportation Planning Society (BTPS)
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Authors:
- Tobias, Maisa Sales Gama
- Ferreira, Eden Fernando Batista
- Publication Date: 2014-1
Language
- English
- Portuguese
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 24-51
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Serial:
- Journal of Transport Literature
- Volume: 8
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Brazilian Transport Planning Society
- ISSN: 2238-1031
- Serial URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=2238-1031&lng=en&nrm=iso
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accessibility; Barrier free design; Case studies; Health; Physical disabilities; Planning and design; Public buildings; Urban areas
- Identifier Terms: Likert scale
- Geographic Terms: Belem (Brazil)
- Subject Areas: Design; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I70: Traffic and Transport;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01492316
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 5 2013 10:11AM