Abstract
Accessible outdoor spaces for unsupervised play are important for children’s health. However, parents impose constraints based on their perception of safety, which can have a significant impact on which play spaces are actually accessible to children. Such constraints are not taken into account by widely adopted accessibility indicators that use generic radial buffers or travel distances. We introduce a child’s play accessibility metric, which measures the ease with which children can reach outdoor play spaces without supervision. We developed this metric through an iterative co-design process with experts on the built environment and children’s health, leveraging open data. Our metric considers traffic, natural barriers to children, and a range of playable spaces. It can be used by planners and policymakers to enable large-scale assessments of play space accessibility, identify associated equity issues, and benchmark progress toward healthier environments for all ages.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM 2023) |
Editors | S. Sangiambut |
Number of pages | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Event | The 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) - Montreal, Canada Duration: 20 Jun 2023 → 22 Jun 2023 |
Conference
Conference | The 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) |
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Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Montreal |
Period | 20/06/23 → 22/06/23 |
Keywords
- Accessibility
- Play space
- Children
- Co-Design
- OpenStreetMap