Measuring experiential qualities of urban public spaces: users’ perspective

Zamanifard, Hadi; Alizadeh, Tooran; Bosman, Caryl; Coiacetto, Eddo John

doi:10.1080/13574809.2018.1484664

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“…The literature described two approaches to achieving effective engagement in POSs. The first is "engagement with space", and the second is "engagement with community" [24,43,44,59]. If POS accommodates activities according to users' needs, then users effectively engage with space [60,61].…”

Section: Public Open Space Index (Posi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A self-administered questionnaire survey, a quantitative approach that helps to understand the users' perceptions of POS. A self-administered questionnaire survey allows the researcher to gain a better understanding of a POS's functional and aesthetic capabilities from the perspective of users [43,59,63]. Aself-administered questionnaire assists respondents to complete the response themselves without the intervention of the researcher.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing Public Open Spaces: A Case of City Nagpur, India

Ahirrao

Khan

2021

Sustainability

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Major Indian cities have a lower public open space (POS)-capita ratio and do not meet national and international standards. Moreover, factors such as lack of design guidelines for POSs, limited funding, and lack of public participation have affected these limitedly available POSs and made them ineffective and incapable of meeting the contemporary needs of a diverse range of users. Therefore, it is essential to make them not only inclusive, user-friendly, attractive, and efficient, but also socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable in order to serve the various facilities and services at their optimum level. This study includes the assessment of two POSs to identify strengths and deficiencies that affect their character and use. These POSs are public parks, provide free access to users and are located in the city of Nagpur. For assessment, the study proposed the Public Open Space Index (POSI) that combines five aspects: Individual well-being, Inclusiveness, Engagement, Sustainable spaces, and Management.A mixed methods approach was considered for data collection, including a self-administered questionnaire survey and observations.According to the results, POSs have strengths in that they facilitate social cohesion, engagement, and basic facilities. POSs do not encourage equitable access and sustainable practices, which are considered deficiencies.The study helps planners, designers, and parenting authority to develop initiatives to make these limited POSs inclusive, functional, and sustainable.

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Section: Public Open Space Index (Posi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Public Open Spaces: A Case of City Nagpur, India

Ahirrao

Khan

2021

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, to understand whether there is a direct influence of the perception of urban public spaces space on momentary and long-term SWB, people’s characteristics of momentary experiences should be measured. It is recognized that studies that take into account momentary user experiences of public spaces in real-world settings, are limited [19].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multi-Level Path Analysis of the Relationships between the Momentary Experience Characteristics, Satisfaction with Urban Public Spaces, and Momentary- and Long-Term Subjective Wellbeing

Weijs-Perrée

Dane

Berg

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Previous research has shown that the urban environment could influence people’s behavior and wellbeing. However, little is still known about how the objective and subjective measures of the momentary experience of urban public spaces could contribute to the satisfaction with the urban environment of cities, which eventually could influence the momentary and long-term subjective wellbeing (SWB) of citizens. Therefore, the aim of this research is to gain insight into how momentary experience and satisfaction with the urban public space could contribute to the SWB of citizens, and thereby control for personal, contextual characteristics. Relationships were simultaneously analyzed using a multi-level path analysis approach based on a sample of 1056 momentary experiences of urban public spaces reported by 161 citizens of the urban area Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The results showed that personality and personal characteristics are highly important for explaining long-term SWB and subsequently long-term SWB positively influences momentary SWB (the degree of feeling secure, comfortable, happy and annoyed) together with the momentary satisfaction of urban public space characteristics. In addition, contextual characteristics, such as time/day and distance to facilities are important for explaining people’s momentary SWB. Policy makers and urban planners can use these results when developing policy and designing a healthy, attractive, livable and safe living environment for citizens.

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“…It is explored mostly through its accessibility, design, freedom of use, and inclusiveness [10,[12][13][14] characteristics that result from ownership status, location, and the way the space is organized, equipped, and managed. The literature review [9,11,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] provides at least a few models (tools) for assessing the degree of publicness of a space, based on different publicness criteria (Table 1). For some models, the set of criteria includes both the physical attributes of space and the degree to which the space fulfils its social function.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are numerous studies on the prosocial character of space [34][35][36][37][38][39]. The efficiency of the space usage has so far been estimated based on subjective perception, including gauging the quality and performance of public space only on the basis of user experiences and inputs gathered through surveys [22,40], but also measurable criteria related to the number, type, and intensity of behaviors [41,42]. Assuming that the measurement of the prosocial character of space should refer to the category of behavior, we can assess the utility value of space by social behaviors.…”

Section: Utility Value Of Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Models of Community-Friendly Recreational Public Space in Warsaw Suburbs. Methodological Approach

Mantey

Kępkowicz

2020

Sustainability

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In recent years, after the rapid and chaotic suburbanization in the 1990s, public spaces were gradually appearing in the new suburbs of postsocialist Poland. It is worth verifying to what extent these spaces are used on a daily basis. This paper aims to present a method of measuring the utility value of recreational public spaces and to determine the relationship between the utility value of space and its publicness. It suggests models of publicness of the most community-friendly recreational public spaces in Warsaw suburbs. As the research shows, intended diversity has the greatest influence on the prosocial character of space. Proximity, on the other hand, does not influence utility value so much. Location at some distance from the main nodes of activity and the highest concentration of houses, but with safe pedestrian access, is of more importance and should be promoted as a condition of successful suburban recreational space. The main conclusion from the research is that the most community-friendly recreational spaces do not have to be fully public. The measurement tools used in analyzing socio-spatial relations contributes to the development of the academic methods of studying the quality of public space.

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Measuring experiential qualities of urban public spaces: users’ perspective

Cited by 47 publications

References 40 publications

Assessing Public Open Spaces: A Case of City Nagpur, India

Assessing Public Open Spaces: A Case of City Nagpur, India

A Multi-Level Path Analysis of the Relationships between the Momentary Experience Characteristics, Satisfaction with Urban Public Spaces, and Momentary- and Long-Term Subjective Wellbeing

Models of Community-Friendly Recreational Public Space in Warsaw Suburbs. Methodological Approach

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