Community participation during the cold winter months is difficult for wheeled mobility device (WMD) users. However, limited attention has been given to understanding this problem, and collaboratively identifying solutions with stakeholders. This qualitative study explored the issues faced by key stakeholders (WMD users and Public Works Department employees) regarding use and provision of accessible sidewalks in winter and identified solutions. Eleven participants informed the study through a combination of go-along interviews, key informant interviews, photographs, and meteorological data. Four themes were identified: the context of winter season, winter and wheels interact, winter versus the city, and a framework for winter access and success. Solutions included creating awareness, taking action, and assuming accountability through collaborative efforts and increased information sharing. Based on the perspectives of informed stakeholders this study contributes to the development of focused interventions for overcoming winter sidewalk barriers and thus, enabling winter community participation of WMD users.

Leung Kwok Yee Kelvin. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1996-97, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction / Chapter Chapter 2: --- My Vision / Chapter Part A: --- Urban Vision / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Site/context analysis / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Client Scenario / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Final Design- / Chapter I. --- The Spine(軸) / Chapter Part B: --- Selected Site Development / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Site/context analysis / Chapter Chapter 7: --- Client Scenario / Chapter Chapter 8: --- Problem / Identification / Chapter Chapter 9: --- Final Design- / Chapter II. --- The Node(点） / Chapter III. --- Open Space(公共空間) / Chapter IV. --- Tower(廈) / Chapter Chapter 10: --- Conclusion / Chapter Chapter 11: --- Process

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Planners and decision-makers recognize that non-motorized transportation provides environmental, economic, and public health benefits. Recent technology advances, such as the widespread use of mobile devices and geographic information systems, enable the collection of disaggregate built environment and travel behavior data. To integrate pedestrian planning into transport operations at local and regional scales, it is necessary to develop systems to rank and prioritize zones and corridors for pedestrian infrastructure investment. Best practices for pedestrian planning suggest that jurisdictions prioritize pedestrian projects based on a variety of concerns, such as high pedestrian activity, pedestrian safety, accessibility to transit and mobility for persons with disabilities, children and older adults. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed and piloted an automated system to assess the quality of sidewalks, utilizing an Android™ App that collects GPS-enabled video, accelerometer, and gyroscope data. Researchers collected pilot sidewalk data within the City of Atlanta to evaluate the accessibility and walkability of pedestrian facilities. This research proposes a weighted ranking system to prioritize pedestrian projects using App-collected pedestrian facility data collected in the field using a mobile Android application, pedestrian safety indicators, pedestrian activity data and demographic data. The ranking system uses a set of block-level pedestrian potential and deficiency indicators to prioritize planning investments within a subarea of Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia, combining available data sources with app-collected sidewalk width data. The results of these rank-order prioritization analyses indicate that blocks near rail stations and Georgia Institute of Technology/Technology Square should be prioritized for pedestrian investments. However, further refinements are needed to extend the application of this methodology to larger geographic scales. Additionally, this research did not consider the cost constraints of pedestrian project alternatives within the study area. Future availability of comprehensive pedestrian activity and pedestrian network data will enable planners and engineers to prioritize corridors and intersections for pedestrian project implementation.

During the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848) Paris’ streets underwent significant urban renovation. The eighteenth-century street was transformed from a filthy and dangerous open sewer dominated by carriages into an agreeable paved prom-enade equipped with sidewalks, trees, benches and boutiques. These pedestrian spaces generated new cultural practices in urban environments such as strolling (‘flânerie’), window-shopping, and outdoor night-life and gave rise to novel forms of casual, bour-geois sociability. Unlike city planning which took place during the second Empire un-der the Baron Haussmann, early nineteenth-century urban design was a decentralized process that allowed citizens to dictate the shape of the capital. As a result, many of its consequences were both unintended and unforeseen. Contemporary observers agreed that the result of such efforts was the gentrification (‘embourgeoisement’) of the inner city and the displacement of its working-class population to the exterior of Paris. / History

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-09-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:20:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 serafim_ma_me_bauru.pdf: 4622405 bytes, checksum: 2493a5197b2c7150c03d5e2ca99637b9 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A pesquisa propõe uma investigação de formas para o desenvolvimento de pisos intertravados para pavimentação de áreas e passeios públicos. Levando em conta a importância dos passeios públicos nas cidades e a pouca variedade de materiais utilizados nos pavimentos das calçadas, a presente pesquisa apresenta apontamentos históricos que demonstram a relevância cultural, social e estética dos calçamentos na paisagem urbana. Essa compreensão histórica pontual leva ao estudo do estado atual das calçadas, onde os fatores sociais demonstram grande relevância nesse contexto e as condições físicas e materiais do sistema dos passeios urbanos, demandam iniciativas públicas de participação popular, que empenham a padronização e normalização das calçadas no intuito de colaborar na preservação e acessibilidade dos calçamentos. Dentre os programas investigados é detectado o uso do piso intertravado cimentício como sendo um dos materiais mais recomendados na pavimentação das calçadas, por isso, a pesquisa elabora um estudo formal do intertravamento e dos produtos cimentícios existentes. Essas bases conceituais serviram como contextualização do objeto de estudo - o piso intertravado - o que leva a pesquisa a investigar as possibilidades estéticas, propondo o estudo de formas, através de proposições geométricas e modulações que evidenciem e ressaltam o caráter do intertravamento. Tal estudo foi elaborado em sala de aula por alunos do curso de Design dos 7º e 8º semestres da Faculdade de Artes e Admnistração de Limeira na disciplina de Modelos Cerâmicos / The research proposes an investigation of ways to develop interlocking paving floors in public areas and rides. Talking into account the importance of public tours in the cities and little variety of materials used in paving the sidewalks, this research provides insights that demonstrate the historical relevance, social and cultural aesthetics of sidewalks in the urban landscape. This understanding leads to occasional historical study of the current state of the sidewalks, where social factors have important relevance in this context and the physical and material conditions of the system of urban rides, public demand for popular participation initiatives, which engage the standardization and normalization of sidewalks in intention to collaborate in the preservation and accessibility of sidewalks. Among the programs investigated is detected using the interlocked floor as a cementitious material most recoomended for paving the sidewalks, so the search prepares a forma study of the interlocking and existing cementitious products. These served as the conceptual basis of the context object of study - the interlocked floor - which leads the search to investigate the aesthetic possibilities, proposing the study of ways, by propositions and geometrical modulations that evidence and underscore the character of the interlock. This study was prepared in the classroom for students of Design of 7 and 8 semesters of the Faculty of Arts and Administration of Limerick in the discipline of Ceramic Models

The purpose of this study is to make a survey of the liability of municipal corporations in Texas for the construction, repair, and maintenance of their streets and sidewalks, and for injuries sustained by the traveling public through defects in same.

Esta tese tem por objetivo verificar a aplicabilidade da metodologia proposta pelo HCM-2000 (Highway Capacity Manual/ano 2000) para a determinação dos Níveis de Serviço nas Instalações para Pedestres. A tese apresenta a avaliação da qualidade de serviço das instalações para pedestres como instrumento que possibilite a inserção da escala do pedestre dentro da escala dos projetos viários e urbanos. A visão ergonômica (o ajuste das instalações para o ser humano) é fundamental para a caracterização da escala do pedestre. A metodologia tem a sua aplicabilidade comprovada, com o estudo de caso na cidade de São Paulo. O campo experimental da pesquisa foi a Zona Leste de São Paulo, devido as suas peculiaridades de espaço com potencial de ocupação e adensamento, com conseqüente exposição de pedestres aos acidentes. Com base nesta tese foram levantadas oito proposições para a cidade de São Paulo, que fazem parte deste trabalho. / This thesis purpose to verify the HCM 2000 (Highway Capacity Manual 2000) purposed methodology which evaluates the pedestrians facilities Level-of-Service in São Paulo city pedestrian s facilities. This thesis also introduces an evaluation from Level-of-Service determinations as a mean to insert the pedestrian scale into the urban projects scales. The ergonomics view (the human beings facilities adjustment) is essential to characterize the pedestrian scale. A study of case in São Paulo City confirmed this methodology appliance. This research took place in São Paulos East Side due to its potential peculiarities and high density occupation, which expose the pedestrians to several hazardous of accidents. Based in this research, there were elaborate eight proposals for São Paulo city.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-10-11T12:44:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Freitas Meotti_.pdf: 15947079 bytes, checksum: 4d884cfb0e5aa6402d166fe1e7516613 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-11T12:44:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Freitas Meotti_.pdf: 15947079 bytes, checksum: 4d884cfb0e5aa6402d166fe1e7516613 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-11 / Nenhuma / Deslocar-se a pé é uma atividade intrínseca ao ser humano, o homem quando caminha estabelece relações com o espaço, conhecendo ou reconhecendo o território onde circula. Nas cidades, os locais destinados ao deslocamento de pedestres são os passeios públicos e, ao caminhar, as calçadas são percebidas como um recinto urbano, no qual é possível compreender o espaço por meio dos quatro planos que envolvem o ambiente pelo qual se está circulando, ou seja, plano do piso, plano da via, plano da cobertura e plano da edificação. Por meio desse entendimento, esta pesquisa tem o viés qualitativo com objetivo de investigar as calçadas da cidade de Santo Ângelo por meio de seis aspectos fundamentais do design ativo para impulsionar o movimento de pedestres. O método consiste em análise técnica do espaço para identificar o índice de qualidade das calçadas e relacionar à percepção do pedestre em planos determinados pela pesquisa. Após o conhecimento desse índice, e, também, por meio da percepção dos pedestres e das fichas de análise técnica, foi possível comparar estudos, identificar oportunidades e desafios para elencar ações prioritárias para intervir nesse espaço urbano, o que resultou em possíveis formas de utilizar esses dados para o planejamento urbano em aspectos pontuais que optam por dar preferência ao pedestre, melhorando questões relacionadas ao bem-estar e à saúde das pessoas. / Walking is an intrinsic activity for the human being, when people walk around they establish relations with the space, knowing or recognizing the territory that circulates. In the cities the place that is destined for the pedestrians to move are the sidewalks, which are perceived by the pedestrians as an urban room, walking through it is possible to understand the space by four planes that surrounds the environment – ground plan, roadside, canopy and building walls. Through this understanding this research has qualitative bias with the objective to investigate the sidewalks of Santo Angelo city by six fundamental aspects of the active design to promote pedestrians movement. The method consists on technical analysis of the space to identify the quality of the sidewalks and relate it to the perception of the pedestrians in plans determined by the research. After perceiving this data through the pedestrian perception and technical files analysis, it was possible to compare studies, identify opportunities and challenges to list priority actions to intervene in this urban space, resulting in possible ways of using this data for urban planning in specific aspects that choose to give preference to the pedestrian, improving issues related to the well-being and people’s health.

Esta tese tem por objetivo verificar a aplicabilidade da metodologia proposta pelo HCM-2000 (Highway Capacity Manual/ano 2000) para a determinação dos Níveis de Serviço nas Instalações para Pedestres. A tese apresenta a avaliação da qualidade de serviço das instalações para pedestres como instrumento que possibilite a inserção da escala do pedestre dentro da escala dos projetos viários e urbanos. A visão ergonômica (o ajuste das instalações para o ser humano) é fundamental para a caracterização da escala do pedestre. A metodologia tem a sua aplicabilidade comprovada, com o estudo de caso na cidade de São Paulo. O campo experimental da pesquisa foi a Zona Leste de São Paulo, devido as suas peculiaridades de espaço com potencial de ocupação e adensamento, com conseqüente exposição de pedestres aos acidentes. Com base nesta tese foram levantadas oito proposições para a cidade de São Paulo, que fazem parte deste trabalho. / This thesis purpose to verify the HCM 2000 (Highway Capacity Manual 2000) purposed methodology which evaluates the pedestrians facilities Level-of-Service in São Paulo city pedestrian s facilities. This thesis also introduces an evaluation from Level-of-Service determinations as a mean to insert the pedestrian scale into the urban projects scales. The ergonomics view (the human beings facilities adjustment) is essential to characterize the pedestrian scale. A study of case in São Paulo City confirmed this methodology appliance. This research took place in São Paulos East Side due to its potential peculiarities and high density occupation, which expose the pedestrians to several hazardous of accidents. Based in this research, there were elaborate eight proposals for São Paulo city.