Walkability as a Performance Indicator for Urban Spaces Strategies and tools for the social construction of experiences

Title

Walkability as a Performance Indicator for Urban Spaces Strategies and tools for the social construction of experiences

 Author

Pak, B.
Verbeke, J.

Date

2013-09-18

 Abstract

s paper frames walkability as a performance indicator for urban spaces and critically addresses some of the existing evaluation methods. It introduces alternative strategies and tools for enabling the collective evaluation of walkability and discusses how experiences of the citizens can possibly lead to a social construct of walkability. This discussion is elaborated by a pilot study which includes exploratory research, social-geographic web services and heat maps. Using these tools and methods, it was possible to derive various experiential and environmental spatial qualities, extract problems and identify problematic areas. From these we have learned that walkability may serve as a fruitful conversation framework and a participatory research concept. Furthermore, we were able to develop ideas for solutions to design and planning problems.

 Subject

walkability
experiential knowledge
collective mapping
social web

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Conference proceedings

 Document type

conference paper

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(c) 2013 Pak, B.; Verbeke, J.
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