The role of urban and social factors in the accessibility of urban areas for people with motor and visual disabilities

Mrak, Iva; Campisi, Tiziana; Tesoriere, Giovanni; Canale, Antonino; Cindrić, Margareta

doi:10.1063/1.5138076

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“…The evolution of cities must be related to the strengthening of accessibility and walkability, which are now measurable through various indicators in the literature [32]. This means allowing all segments of the population to move easily on foot, with minimum consumption and enhancing all those services that can increase options such as the creation of relaxation areas, the improvement of sidewalks, or the spread of restricted traffic areas.…”

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Cities under Pressure: Strategies and Tools to Face Climate Change and Pandemic

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This paper investigates the problems and stresses of the contemporary city, mainly due to natural and health factors, related to climate change and the pandemic COVID19. Besides highlighting the characteristics of climate change and the ongoing pandemic, this study focuses on the analysis of the main effects and consequences that these phenomena have produced on the city and the vulnerabilities of the urban system. To understand how these events have impacted the urban environment, directly and indirectly, this research undertakes to define some specific indicators capable of comparing the phenomena and assessing their repercussions. The Methodology is based on the following focal points: on the analysis of the urban shocks that have affected the cities in the last decade, on the comparison between contemporary survey data and those relating to historical trends, on the definition of the main urban sectors particularly affected by the onset of urban shocks, and on the definition of strategies, actions, and tools deemed to be effective in the implementation of a post-pandemic and climate-proof city. These results were achieved through complementary urban design and tools capable of creating a post-pandemic and climate-proof adaptive city, within a cross-disciplinary approach.

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“…We chose to follow a quantitative research set up with an online experiment accompanied by a user questionnaire. Recent studies have shown a valuable contribution of questionnaires, including the area of public opinion on mobility usage [59], the case of mobility-impaired individuals [60], or potential conflicts in shared spaces among different mobility means [61].…”

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Mobility Need-Adaptive Housing Platforms: The Benefit of a Commute Time Search Feature

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The growing influx of people to urban areas has resulted in a tense housing market in many places, making the search for a suitable residence an increased challenge. Dedicated online platforms facilitate this process and offer two distinct approaches to find suitable accommodations concerning its location. Traditionally, users can search for a general area like a city to narrow down the results displayed. Additionally, some platforms offer searches based on the maximum commute time between apartments and points of interest. This paper investigates the benefit such approaches yield concerning technology acceptance and the fit of the task and information representation. Thus, a prototypically implemented online platform with and without a commute time search feature was evaluated in an online experiment. The treatment specification achieved significantly better results in terms of information quality and technology acceptance, implicating that such a design should be preferred for websites that facilitate the search for apartments. These insights can contribute to an enhanced understanding of visual system design to reduce the negative sustainability impacts of traffic induced by a divergence of residential and workplaces.

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“…Increasingly more work has been done using the social model to assess and improve the environment as a way to address disability and accessibility issues. For instance, research has identified a range of factors that make an environment accessible or inaccessible to people with mobility impairments or wheelchair users, including narrow aisles, missing curb ramps, steps, and uneven surfaces [13,49,52]. More recently, more attention has been drawn to the social properties of the environment, mainly in terms of policies and regulations [25,62].…”

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Alignment Work for Urban Accessibility: A Study of How Wheelchair Users Travel in Urban Spaces

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Mobility is the key for people with disabilities to have full participation in life. To support their mobility, previous work primarily focused on accessibility as an attribute of the external environment to be evaluated, labeled, visualized, and improved. Relatively less work has looked at how people with disabilities go out and move around in practice and work to achieve mobility. This paper presents a qualitative study of 14 wheelchair users' travel practices in everyday life in China, highlighting urban accessibility as alignment work -- the use of an awareness of the conditions along the journey to continuously align and re-align various resources to ensure accessibility and mobility across contexts and moments. By highlighting alignment work, we present another side of the story of urban accessibility, and broaden design considerations to support mobility for wheelchair users.

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The role of urban and social factors in the accessibility of urban areas for people with motor and visual disabilities

Cited by 22 publications

References 14 publications

Cities under Pressure: Strategies and Tools to Face Climate Change and Pandemic

Cities under Pressure: Strategies and Tools to Face Climate Change and Pandemic

Mobility Need-Adaptive Housing Platforms: The Benefit of a Commute Time Search Feature

Alignment Work for Urban Accessibility: A Study of How Wheelchair Users Travel in Urban Spaces

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