Perceived safety of the retrofit neighborhood: A location-based approach

Kyttä, Marketta; Kuoppa, Jenni; Hirvonen, Jukka; Ahmadi, Ehsan; Tzoulas, Tuija

doi:10.1057/udi.2013.31

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“…These approaches allow the collection of geographically referenced ‘soft’ information which takes into consideration the individual’s experiential knowledge. When combined with traditional GIS data layers, this type of information has been a welcome addition to evidence-based planning [ 51 , 52 ]. Our results also demonstrate that destinations closer to home (i.e., public parks), have a higher proportion of active transport trips, which is consistent with current literature; distance is one of the strongest predictors of active transportation in young people [ 53 , 54 ].…”

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A novel assessment of adolescent mobility: a pilot study

Duncan

Chaix

Kestens

et al. 2015

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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BackgroundThe accurate measurement of daily mobility and travel to destinations beyond the residential neighbourhood has been identified as an important but almost systematically overlooked factor when investigating the relationship between exposure to the built environment and physical activity. The recent development of VERITAS – a web-based application nested within a computer-assisted personal interview – allows researchers to assess daily mobility, travel to regular destinations, and perceived neighbourhood boundaries using interactive mapping technology. The aims of this pilot study were to (1) demonstrate the feasibility and functionality of using VERITAS in an adolescent sample, and (2) compare urban form characteristics and geometric features of the perceived neighbourhood with traditional neighbourhood delimitations.MethodsData were collected and analysed for twenty-eight participants (14 male, 15.9 ± 1.48 years) in 2013. Participants underwent anthropometric assessment before completing a custom-designed VERITAS protocol under the supervision of trained interview technicians. Regularly visited destinations, school travel routes, transportation modes, travel companions, and perceived neighbourhood boundaries were assessed. Data were imported into ArcGIS and street network distances between the home and each geolocated destination were generated. Convex hull activity spaces were derived from destinations. Urban form variables and geometric characteristics were compared between the perceived neighbourhood, existing meshblocks, 1 mile Euclidean buffers, and 1 km network buffers.ResultsIn total, 529 destinations were geolocated, 58% of which were outside the perceived neighbourhood boundary. Active travel was inversely associated with distance to destinations (r = −.43, p < .05) and traveling with adults (r = −.68, p < .01). Urban form and geometric characteristics of the perceived neighbourhood were different from those in other neighbourhood delimitations.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates the feasibility of using VERITAS to assess mobility within adolescent populations. Our results also illustrate the potential novelty and use of user-defined spaces, and highlight the limitations of relying on restricted definitions of place (i.e., administrative or residential-focused neighbourhoods) when assessing environmental exposure.

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A novel assessment of adolescent mobility: a pilot study

Duncan

Chaix

Kestens

et al. 2015

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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“…Analysis of the article content with the relevant categories "state", "health", and "education" shows that these publications are devoted to political (organizational and administrative), and police measures in the area of public security connected with health protection [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]; food security [26][27][28]; protection from threats and violence in educational sphere [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]; urban security [41][42][43][44][45][46][47]; and protection from crime and terrorism [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. These life spheres and human behavior are evaluated for external risks and physical threats with preventive or reactive impacts on the environment and social relations being the factors and tools of protection from them.…”

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Security or Safety: Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Usage in Research Works Published in 2004–2019

Bubnovskaia

Leonidova

Lysova

2019

Behavioral Sciences

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This article is devoted to the statistical analysis of security and safety frequency in the context of categories connected with social institutions and personality features in research works from 2004–2019. Research was based on the following methods: quantitative analysis of safety frequency in the context with coded “categories” related to social institutions and personality features; analysis was conducted with computer-assisted content analysis QDA Miner Lite v. 1.4 and Fisher’s F-test. An analysis of 1157 works showed that the terms “security” and “safety” were quantitatively more frequent when used with concepts related to social institutions than with concepts related to personality features. In our opinion, this qualitative trend shows the prevailing significance of social aspects of security over its personal (psychological) traits for research analysis and practical social aspects. The priority usage of the terms “security” and “safety” can be related to the securitization of society, (i.e., to the increased role and significance of social ways of providing security and protection from threats), primarily with the help of external law-enforcing actors such as the state, police, and army. Securitization counterweights the development of social and psychological mechanisms of security—developing motivation for safe behavior, personal self-regulation, and self-production of security as an internal feeling of protection.

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“…Data were collected using VGI, a type of PPGIS [ 38 ] that combines internet maps with traditional questionnaires [ 41 , 94 ]. Such methods have been used in diverse place-based studies, examining for example the relationship between design characteristics and social qualities relating to the perceived safety of inhabitants of a neighbourhood [ 95 ], the application of PPGIS for planning urban green infrastructure [ 96 ], multiple-level influences of health behaviours and factors that influence active travel by older adults [ 94 ], the combination of accessibility analysis with PPGIS of users’ environmental perceptions [ 97 ] and the VGI of locations that enhance relaxation and reduce stress among university students [ 98 ]. Although perceptions and objective properties of places can be mapped and quantified with PPGIS and VGI [ 38 , 99 ], such methods had not yet been used to explore perceptions and experiences of creative encounters at university campuses and SPs.…”

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Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

Soares

Weitkamp

Yamu

2020

IJERPH

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The success of university campuses depends on the interrelations between creative encounters and the built environment, conceptualised here as spatial affordances for creativity. Such an interface plays a fundamental role in interactions for knowledge sharing and the exchange of ideas on campus. Due to campus public spaces generally being considered as the leftovers between buildings and classrooms, undermanaged, and overlooked, little is known about the extent to which this built environment enables or inhibits creative encounters in such spaces. The inner-city campuses and science parks (SPs) of Amsterdam and Utrecht, the case-studies of this research, differ in terms of their location relative to the city, their masterplan typologies and the arrangement of buildings. However, they are similar in terms of the aforementioned issues of public spaces. The novelty of this research is the attempt to overcome such issues using an innovative mixed-methods approach that tests the ‘spatial affordances for creativity’ with empirical data collection and analysis. This raises the importance of mapping, quantifying and analysing the spatial distribution of momentary perceptions, experiences, and feelings of people with methods such as volunteered geographic information (VGI). The results show that proximity between multiple urban functions and physical features, such as parks, cafés and urban seating are important when it comes to explaining the high frequency of creative encounters between people. Urban designers of campuses can use the applied method as a tool to plan and design attractive public spaces that provide creativity through the transfer of tacit knowledge, social well-being, positive momentary perceptions, sense of community, and a sense of place.

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Perceived safety of the retrofit neighborhood: A location-based approach

Cited by 40 publications

References 37 publications

A novel assessment of adolescent mobility: a pilot study

A novel assessment of adolescent mobility: a pilot study

Security or Safety: Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Usage in Research Works Published in 2004–2019

Public Spaces as Knowledgescapes: Understanding the Relationship between the Built Environment and Creative Encounters at Dutch University Campuses and Science Parks

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