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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Combinamos entre nós ou com o tempo?: temporalidades climáticas no cotidiano de idosos moradores do centro de São Paulo / Do we agree between us or with the weather?: times and climates in everyday life of elderly residents of the center of Sao Paulo

Maria Antonietta Mascolli 23 May 2016 (has links)
A relação entre o clima e a saúde do idoso urbano tem sido amplamente abordada em termos quantitativos. Esta pesquisa busca compreender como se constitui a relação dos idosos com o clima no cotidiano urbano e em seu contexto cultural, buscando contribuições para o tema da adaptação em tempos de mudanças climáticas, ao fenômeno da ilha de calor urbana, e para o entendimento sobre o envelhecer na cidade. O objetivo foi compreender como os idosos moradores do centro de São Paulo, Brasil, experimentam e relatam sua experiência sobre o tempo meteorológico e o clima no cotidiano, tanto na vida doméstica quanto na sua movimentação pelo espaço público, integrando perspectivas físicas, subjetivas e ambientais. Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, de perspectiva etnográfica e com orientação analítico-descritiva, que utiliza como técnicas de coleta de dados a observação participante, entrevistas semiestruturadas e análise de documentos. A interpretação do material coletado seguiu os pressupostos da análise temática e manteve o foco em práticas sociais. Os participantes da pesquisa revelaram uma relação complexa com o clima e tempo, explicitada por meio da prática narrativa de memórias sociais que elaboram uma construção de clima e, simultaneamente, das práticas antecipatórias e adaptativas às condições atmosféricas que se apresentam no cotidiano. Esta experiência revelou-se corporificada e situada tanto no plano concreto do urbano quanto no plano subjetivo do histórico e social. Conclui-se que o caráter multidimensional da experiência do idoso ao clima e tempo meteorológico, quando capturada do ponto de vista do sujeito, fornece novos subsídios para compreender saúde e envelhecimento urbano de forma ampliada, e insights para políticas públicas nas áreas da vigilância em saúde e do planejamento urbano nesta área temática. / Introduction - The relationship between climate, health and the urban elderly has been widely discussed in quantitative terms. This research seeks to understand how the relationship with climate is built into the everyday life of the elderly who live in cities within their historical, social and cultural context. It aims to generate contributions to the issue of adaptation to climate change, to an urban heat island environment and the debate on aging in big cities. The main objective was to understand how the elderly residents of the center of São Paulo, Brazil, experience and report the experience about weather and climate in daily life, both in domestic and public spaces, integrating physical, subjective and environmental perspectives. This is a qualitative research with an ethnographic approach and an analytical-descriptive orientation, using the techniques of participant observation, semi-structured interviews and document analysis for data generation. The interpretative approach follows the assumptions of thematic analysis and the focus on practices. The participants have revealed a complex relationship with climate and weather: from constructions of climate that emerged during narrative practice of social memories, to anticipatory and adaptive practices to atmospheric conditions they had to deal with in everyday life. The experience has proved to be embodied and emplaced both in the concrete urban dimension and in the subjective dimension of the historical and social context. We conclude showing how the multidimensional nature of the elderly´s experience about climate and weather, when captured from the subject\'s point of view, provides new insights to more broadly understanding about health and urban aging and contributes to public policy in the areas of health surveillance and urban planning.
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A representação do vazio no cotidiano / The Representation of the Emptiness in the Everyday-Life

Fabio Kneese Flaks 19 October 2009 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta uma reflexão sobre a minha produção artística desenvolvida ao longo dos últimos anos que tem como preocupação central a relação entre os conceitos de cotidiano, vazio e criação. O objetivo deste texto é entender de uma maneira abrangente o processo de criação do conjunto de obras apresentado, identificando e organizando os motivos que levaram à sua criação, os conceitos envolvidos, elementos e técnicas utilizadas para sua materialização. As questões referentes aos conceitos de cotidiano e vazio são apresentadas e discutidas, relacionando-as com o processo criativo e demais procedimentos próprios do fazer artístico. / This dissertation presents a reflection on my artistic production developed over the last years, which has as central concern the relation between the concepts of everyday-life, emptiness and creation. This text aims to explore in a comprehensive manner the issues involved during the creation of the presented works, identifying and organizing the reasons that led to the creation of these works, the concepts involved, the elements and techniques used for their materialization. The issues referring to the concepts of everyday-life and emptiness are presented, examined and related to the creative process and others art procedures.
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Do tijolo à paisagem: um estudo para a construção de um ponto de vista / -

Cesar Yoichi Fujimoto 17 November 2015 (has links)
Nas páginas desta pesquisa aborda-se as características construtivas relacionadas à visualidade dos trabalhos desenvolvidos à partir de 2004 e estabelece intersecções entre arte, arquitetura e paisagem. Realizada em duas frentes, teórica e prática, a parte inicial da pesquisa destina-se a uma revisão de um modus operandi através de uma leitura crítica do contexto histórico, com especial destaque ao minimalismo. O conjunto de trabalhos visa articular a noção de lugar a partir de gestos construtivos, com a intenção de evocar formas poéticas que sugerem pontos de vista sobre uma paisagem. / The pages of this research discuss the constructive approach related to the visuality of the artworks developed since 2004 and establish intersections between art, architecture and landscape. Developed in two fronts, both theoretical and practical, the initial part of this research is meant to a review of the modus operandi through a critical reading of the historical context, specifically observing the minimalists. The selected artworks articulates the notion of place through the constructive gesture, with the intention to evoke poetic forms, suggesting certain views of a landscape.
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As experiências formadoras da docência : estudo das trajetórias formativas de professoras-cursistas do curso PEAD/UFRG

Machado, Juliana Brandão January 2013 (has links)
O mundo da vida cotidiana é o aqui e agora das relações humanas, que se apresenta à nossa interpretação, e onde se forjam as experiências formadoras. A tese analisa o mundo da vida das professoras-cursistas do curso de Graduação em Pedagogia na Modalidade a Distância, oferecido pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, entre os anos de 2006 a 2010, no sentido de identificar e analisar as experiências formadoras da docência em relação às trajetórias de formação dos sujeitos envolvidos no processo. Os conceitos principais da tese são mundo da vida cotidiana, na perspectiva de Alfred Schütz, experiência formadora, de acordo com Marie-Christine Josso e cibersocialidade, na perspectiva de André Lemos. Mundo da vida cotidiana é o espaço das relações humanas que estabelecemos diariamente, a realidade emergente de nossas experiências, e onde se forjam os esquemas reflexivos da consciência, a ponto de transformar uma vivência em uma experiência que significa e demarca a trajetória de um sujeito. Experiência formadora constitui-se como a possibilidade de criar e recriar, no âmbito da formação, as significações a respeito do aprendido: aprendido a fazer, a ser e a pensar. A cibersocialidade se relaciona à vivência do cotidiano presentificado, em que emergem as relações na sociedade em rede. A pesquisa de campo foi desenvolvida em duas etapas: a primeira, de abordagem quantitativa, investiga os usos do tempo das professoras-cursistas e mapeia o seu cotidiano. Na segunda etapa são analisadas as experiências formadoras da docência, a partir da seleção de rotinas-síntese de perfis típicos e atípicos da população analisada, totalizando oito sujeitos. As experiências formadoras foram analisadas a partir dos Portfólios de Aprendizagem das professoras-cursistas, recuperando as recordações-referência a partir dos seus itinerários de experiências individuais. Em relação ao mapeamento do cotidiano das professoras-cursistas observamos um cotidiano marcado por um contingente expressivo de ocupações, em que diminui o tempo de lazer e cuidados pessoais na medida em que aumenta o tempo de estudo. O imperativo de gênero demarca as relações estabelecidas no cotidiano das professoras-cursistas. Consideramos necessário o desenvolvimento políticas públicas voltadas à formação de professores considerando a formação como parte do trabalho remunerado. Em relação às experiências formadoras analisamos em profundidade os registros e percebemos que estas se relacionam com o mundo da vida cotidiana de cada professora-cursista, ultrapassando as fronteiras da universidade e da escola, na medida em que se relacionam com essas vivências. As recordações-referência apresentadas compuseram um rol de experiências formadoras destacadas para estes sujeitos. Na medida em que os oito sujeitos respondem às sínteses de reconhecimentos da população analisada no curso PEAD/UFRGS, apontamos as experiências analisadas acima como as experiências formadoras da docência para as professoras-cursistas do PEAD/UFRGS. Por fim, destacamos a importância de assumirmos a experiência formadora como forma de qualificar a formação de professores. / The world of everyday life is the here and now of human relations, and presents itself to our interpretation of the interpretation, and where they forge their formative experiences. The thesis examines the life world of teachers-students of the Course Undergraduate Education in Distance mode offered by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, between the years 2006 to 2010, to identify and analyze the formative experiences of teaching in relation to the trajectories of the subjects involved in the training process. The main concepts of the thesis is the world of everyday life, from the perspective of Alfred Schütz, formative experience, according to Marie-Christine Josso and ciber-sociality, in the perspective of André Lemos. World of everyday life is the space of human relationships we establish daily, the emerging reality of our experiences, and where they forge reflective schemes of consciousness to the point of transforming an experience into an experience that demarcates the meaning and trajectory of a subject. Formative Experience constitutes the ability to create and recreate, in the scope of training, the meanings of what was learned: learned to do, to be and to think. The ciber-sociality relates to the experience of everyday life made present in the relationships that emerge in the network society. The field research was conducted in two stages: the first, a quantitative approach, investigates the time-use of teachers-students and maps their everyday life. In the second stage analyzes the formative experiences of teaching, from the selection of routine-synthesis profiles of typical and atypical of the population analyzed, totaling eight subjects. The formative experiences were analyzed from the portfolios of the teachers-Learning course participants, retrieving memories-reference from their itineraries individual experiences. Regarding the mapping of everyday teachers, teacher students observe a daily marked by a large contingent of occupations, which reduces the time for leisure and personal care in that it increases the time of study. The imperative of gender demarcating relations. We consider it necessary to develop public policies aimed at training teachers considering training as part of paid work. Regarding formative experiences we analyze in depth the records and realized that they necessarily relate to the world of everyday life of each teachers-students, surpassing the boundaries of the university and the school. Memories-reference presented composed a list of formative experiences highlighted for these subjects. Insofar as the eight subjects respond to the syntheses of recognitions of the population analyzed in the course HDPE / UFRGS, pointed the experiences discussed above as the formative experiences of teaching for teachers, teacher students HDPE / UFRGS. Finally, we highlight the importance of formative experience as we assume the possibility of qualifying teacher training.
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Estruturas contigentes e formas resguardadas : o tecer como prática inserida no cotidiano / Contingent structures and withdrawn shapes : weaving as an everyday art practice

Braga, Lia Regina Gomes January 2013 (has links)
A presente dissertação, intitulada Estruturas Contingentes e Formas Resguardadas: o tecer como prática artística inserida no cotidiano, propõe a análise do processo de tecitura manual dos objetos que compõem a pesquisa. Ao sistematizar e analisar o processo dos referidos objetos, abordarei as interferências e intercorrências em espaços privados e públicos – experienciados enquanto lugares de atividades cotidianas e do exercício de tecer. Também estarão sob foco as reverberações dessas experiências no atelier e nos modos de exposição. / This dissertation, titled Contingent Structures and Withdrawn Shapes: weaving as an everyday art practice, proposes the analysis of the process of hand weaving the objects that make up the research. By systematizing and analyzing the process of said objects, I will approach interferences and events in private and public spaces - experienced as venues for everyday activities and for the act of weaving. Echoes of these experiences in the studio and in exhibition methods will also be addressed.
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Capit?es da Feira e outras crian?as: a inf?ncia pobre e abandonada de Feira de Santana entre 1879 e 1945

Costa, L?via Gozzer 08 March 2013 (has links)
Submitted by Verena Bastos (verena@uefs.br) on 2015-09-09T15:15:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTA??OL?viaGozzer.pdf: 11948124 bytes, checksum: a4e5a5702685347f4c58dcb6faf81ba3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-09T15:15:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTA??OL?viaGozzer.pdf: 11948124 bytes, checksum: a4e5a5702685347f4c58dcb6faf81ba3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-08 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de S?o Paulo - FAPESP / This study aims to analyze the daily life of poor and abandoned children of Feira de Santana in the period comprising the years 1879 to 1945. We understand that this interval initiatives directed to "fix" childhood?s problems were marked not only in that feirense city but also in Brazilian cities in tune with the republican tenets of order, progress, habits and behaviors? civility and city architecture. In this progressive desired scenario was seen birth and death public and private actions, times backed by the state, sometimes its drift, implying that the interests of the political sphere in feirense poor and abandoned childhood was not related to solution the historical problems of this social group but the consolidation of the civilizing project that saw the poor and abandoned children before potentially active subjects in Feira de Santana?s delay, possible future articulators of their civilizing project. / Este estudo tem por objetivo analisar o cotidiano da inf?ncia pobre e abandonada de Feira de Santana no per?odo que compreende os anos de 1879 a 1945. Entendemos que neste intervalo temporal as iniciativas direcionadas ? ?corre??o? dos problemas da inf?ncia foram acentuadas n?o s? na urbe feirense como tamb?m nas cidades brasileiras sintonizadas com os postulados republicanos da ordem, progresso e civilidade dos h?bitos, comportamentos e arquitetura citadina. Neste desejado cen?rio progressista viu-se nascer e morrer a??es p?blicas e privadas, ora amparadas pelo Estado, ora a sua deriva, deixando entrever que o interesse destas esferas pol?ticas na inf?ncia pobre e abandonada feirense n?o se relacionava ? solu??o dos problemas hist?ricos deste grupo social, mas ? consolida??o dos projetos civilizat?rios que enxergavam nas crian?as pobres e abandonadas, antes sujeitos potencialmente ativos no atraso de Feira de Santana, poss?veis futuros articuladores de seu projeto civilizat?rio.
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Estudo de caso sobre os usos do tempo entre alunas em curso de pedagogia na modalidade a distância

Alves, Maria José dos Santos January 2010 (has links)
A pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar os usos do tempo das alunas-professoras do Curso de Pedagogia Modalidade a Distância da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PEAD). É um estudo de caso entre as alunas-professoras que estão em formação e compõem grupos distintos, ou seja, as casadas com filhos, as casadas sem filhos e as solteiras. Na vida cotidiana, tempo e gênero se entrelaçam nas tomadas de decisões e ações dos grupos especificados acima. Para compreender essa cotidianidade, utilizei os conceitos de vida cotidiana na perspectiva de Agnes Heller. Nesse cotidiano, a generacidade e a particularidade mobilizam as questões que envolvem o tempo e as relações de gênero. Os registros das atividades foram feitas durante as 24 horas no instrumento denominado diário dos usos do tempo. As categorias analisadas foram: tempo de trabalho doméstico, tempo de estudo, tempo de vida social e tempo livre. O tempo para o estudo nos três grupos é desenvolvido a noite de maneira ininterrupta. A vida social das casadas acontece no âmbito familiar. Para as solteiras o tempo de socialização com a familia é menor. É o único grupo que registra tempo livre. Os usos do tempo das casadas são compostos de uma rotina em que o estudo é inserido na cotidianidade do trabalho doméstico. Em relação às solteiras, o que as afasta do grupo das casadas são os os eventos de cuidado com a casa e do turno em que ocorre o estudo. O fator tempo deve ser pensado em sua complexidade, que envolve as relações de genêro na organização do tempo de estudo. / The research aims to analyze the uses of time by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Pedagogy Course Distance Learning Mode (HDPE) student-teachers. It is a case study among the student-teachers who are enrolled in continuing education and comprise distinct groups, i.e. married women with children, married without children and single women. In everyday life, time and gender intertwine in decision making and actions of the groups specified above. To understand this everyday concepts I have used the everyday life concepts from the perspective of Agnes Heller. In everyday life generacity and particularity mobilize the issues involving the time and gender relations. The records of the activities were made during 24 hours on the instrument called daily time use. The categories analyzed were: dedicated time to domestic work, study time, social time and free time. The time for studying in the three groups is developed uninterrupted at night. The social life of the married women happens with their family. For the single ones the time socializing with family is smaller. It is the only group that registers free time. The time use by married women is composed of a routine in which the study is inserted in the daily life of housework. Regarding the single ones, what set them apart from the married women group are the events of home care and the shift that the study occurs. The time factor must be considered in its complexity which involves gender relations in the organization of study time.
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Planejamento urbano na escuta : sons da cidade

Machado, Renata Silva January 2011 (has links)
O sons da cidade são objeto de reflexão recente. O final da década de 70 do século XXI é o período onde são identificadas obras fundadoras do estudo dos sons no e do espaço urbano na literatura vinculada às ciências sociais puras e aplicadas. Mesmo como objeto de reflexão recente e ainda pouco divulgado, os sons da cidade estão presentes em pesquisas, se não como foco central, como aspecto central da cidade e da vida na cidade. A presente dissertação propõe-se identificar a presença dos sons da cidade como temática de pesquisa no Planejamento Urbano e Regional (PUR) brasileiro através da busca de palavras-chave nos textos da área. São dois os momentos de análise: primeiro ao demarcar o alcance espaço temporal da pesquisa é lançado um olhar amplo ao PUR através do conjunto de trabalhos apresentados nas ultimas quatro edições dos encontros da ANPUR (X, XI, XII e XIII ENANPUR, ocorridos respectivamente nos anos 2003, 2005, 2007 e 2009) e das dissertações e teses defendidas no PROPUR/UFRGS desde a fundação do programa em 1970 até 2009. Em seqüência são tratados em profundidade os trabalhos apresentados no XIII ENANPUR (2009), evento onde se identificou a maior recorrência de palavras-chave com potencial associativo a temáticas sons da cidade. Esta análise permite inferir que os sons são tema cada vez mais freqüentes na área PUR, sendo que se destacam como formas de tratar os sons a apresentação destes como elementos constitutivos da experiência urbana, como práticas cotidianas, e como aspectos enunciados por serem apreendidos como um problema. / The sounds of the city are subject of recent discussion. The 70th decade of the XXI Century is the period where the founders works in the study of sounds and of urban space are identified in literature linked to the social sciences, both pure and applied. Even being object of recent reflection and still little known, the sounds of the city takes themselves present in researches, if not as a central focus, as a constituent aspect of the town and the life in this place. This dissertation aims to identify the presence of the city sounds as theme of research in the Brazilian field of Urban and Regional Planning thru keywords searching in the studies of this area. The moments of analysis were two: former, to demarcate the temporal scope, was launched a broad look at PUR covering both dissertations and theses presented in Post-Graduation Program on Urban and Regional Planning (PROPUR/UFRGS) from the foundation of this program in 1970 until 2009, and the set of papers presented in the last four editions of the meetings of National Association of Post-Graduation in Urban and Regional Planning - ANPUR (X, XI, XII and XIII ENANPUR, that occurred respectively in the years 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009).In sequence were treated in depth the papers presented at the XIII ENANPUR (2009), because the biggest recurrence of keywords with associative potential with the research theme named sounds of the city was identified in this event. This analysis allows us to infer that the sounds are increasingly frequent topic in the PUR area, being identified as ways of dealing with the sounds the presentation of them as a constitutive part of the urban experience, as everyday practices, and as a aspect that is enounce because is apprehended as a problem.
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Att återgå till vardagen : En kvalitativ litteraturöversikt om strokedrabbade patienters upplevelser / Return to everyday life : A qualitative literature review based on stroke patients’ experiences

Essemo Lorenzen, Sara, Jarl, Hanna January 2019 (has links)
Bakgrund: Stroke är en av Sveriges folksjukdomar och den främsta anledningen till att vuxna personer drabbas av funktionsnedsättningar. Sjukdomen innebär en stor omställning för patienten då den medför en förändrad vardag. Det är en av många faktorer som påverkar patientens livskvalitet. Rehabilitering och stöd från interdisciplinärt team och närstående är viktiga delar för snabbare återhämtning. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva patienters upplevelser av vardagslivet efter stroke. Metod: Metoden var en litteraturöversikt baserad på kvalitativa artiklar som analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Analysen resulterade i tre huvudkategorier; förändrad tillvaro, förändrad identitet och behov av hjälp framåt. Patienterna upplevde en förändrad vardag på grund av de omständigheter stroke gav. Hemmet och anhöriga var två viktiga faktorer för att patienterna skulle känna trygghet. Fysiska och psykiska förändringar till följd av stroke gjorde att patienterna upplevde sin kropp som främmande. De fick lära sig att tolka sin nya kropp vilket upplevdes påfrestande. De behövde verktyg för att kunna hantera sin nya vardag och den förändrade kroppen vilket de erhöll från det interdisciplinära teamet. Konklusion: Patienternas upplevda livskvalitet påverkades negativt på grund av livsomställningarna efter stroke. Vad som gav mening och sammanhang blev tydligare för patienterna och att återgå till sitt ”gamla jag” var något som patienterna prioriterade högt. Viktigt för återhämtningen var det sociala och professionella stödet. De bildade tillsammans ett säkerhetsnät för patienten och möjliggjorde en meningsfull framtid. / Background: Stroke is one of the most common diseases in Sweden and the primary reason why adults get disabilities. Stroke means a great conversion for the patient which leads to a changed everyday life. There are many factors that affects the patients’ quality of life. Rehabilitation and support from the interdisciplinary team and family are important for efficiency of the recovery. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe patients’ experiences of everyday life after stroke. Method: The method was a literature review based on qualitative studies and were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Results: The analyses resulted in three main catagories; changed living, changed identity and needs of help forward. Patients experienced a changed living because of the circumstances their stroke gave them. Their home and closest family were two main factors for the patients to feel safe. Because of the stroke patients received a new body that meant both physical and psychological changes. The patients got to learn their new body which was experienced as demanding. Patients needed tools to be able to handle their new everyday life and changed body, which they received from the interdisciplinary team. Conclusion: Patients experienced that their quality of life was affected negativly because of the life adjusment after the stroke. What gave the patients meaning and connection became more clear after the stroke, to revert the ”old me” were highly priotitized. The social and profesional support was important for the rehabilitation. Together they created a saftey net for the patient and enabled a meaningful future.
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The accessibility paradox : Everyday geographies of proximity, distance and mobility / Tillgänglighetsparadoxen : Geografisk närhet, avstånd och mobilitet i vardagsperspektiv

Haugen, Katarina January 2012 (has links)
This thesis aims to explore the importance of proximity and mobility, respectively, for individuals’ accessibility, as well as the relationship between these two key spatial dimensions of accessibility in the context of everyday life. The thesis is based upon three empirical research papers which focus on accessibility-related preferences, actual accessibility conditions, and travel patterns. Focus is directed towards the spatial relationships between individuals’ residential location vis-à-vis the location of a selection of different amenities including work, education, service and leisure functions as well as social relations. The analyses are based on a wide range of quantitative data, including questionnaire surveys as well as official register data for the Swedish population.      The first paper shows that residential proximity to amenities was most valued by individuals in the case of social relations and basic daily activities. The level of satisfaction with current accessibility conditions was generally high, with the exception of social relations where the findings suggest the existence of a ‘proximity deficit’. The second paper shows that observed average distances to most amenities have decreased over time (1995–2005). Concerning service amenities, the increases in proximity over the period were primarily due to a restructuring of the localization patterns within the service sector. A comparison of potential accessibility conditions and actual travel patterns revealed that people tend to travel farther than to the nearest amenity options, presumably to a large extent because of selective individual preferences, which may downplay the importance of distance in destination choice. The third paper shows that although the numerical supply of amenities within different spatial ranges has a significant influence on how far individuals travel for service errands, supply size alone is not sufficient for explaining travel length. The findings also suggest that although people tend to utilize the supply of amenities available locally, they are also willing to extend their travel distance in order to reach the amenity supply available within the region. Thus, even when there is a local supply, a rich regional supply may induce longer trips.      A juxtaposition of the findings of the three empirical studies suggests the existence of an ‘accessibility paradox’ with several facets. First, although people express an affinity for residential proximity to many amenities, this is not necessarily reflected in actual destination choices, since minimization of travel distance is apparently not always a key criterion. This is also suggested by the conclusion that the spatial structure of the amenity supply alone accounts for only a relatively small part of the explanation of travel length, which is influenced by many other factors. In addition, actual travel distances show an increasing trend over time despite the concurrent reductions in potential distances. Second, the development over time indicates that the proximity deficit regarding social relations may be increasing in the sense that average distances have increased to many of the amenities considered important to have nearby, for instance adult children, but have decreased to those where proximity is not considered particularly important. Third, there is a discrepancy between the observed trend towards increased proximity to many amenities and much of the general discourse on accessibility, which tends to emphasize deteriorating conditions.

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