TY - GEN
T1 - Environmental Affordances
T2 - 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, ACESD 2021
AU - Zhang, Qianxi
AU - Deng, Wu
AU - Loo, Yat Ming
AU - Ma, Siyu
AU - Ma, Yuanli
AU - Chen, Weixuan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. I sincerely appreciate everyone who supported my research. I would like to express my gratitude to all of the children in Mingdong community for their great experience which were shared to me. The research is supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of China under grant 22NDQN291YB.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Advocating for child-responsive urban settings can bring five benefits for sustainable development and designing child-friendly street environment in neighbourhood level plays an important role in children’s healthy growth. However, a series of problems and dangerous conditions are exacerbated by currently vehicle-oriented street design, especially in the high-density residential area. This research examines using the approach of environmental affordance to assess the street spatial resources and promote the child-friendly street design. The study conducted in the Mingdong community, Ningbo city, China. It’s a typical high-density community and one main street inside for children travelling from home to school was selected as the research sample. To collect the data, researcher used the methods of observation, documentation and interview with children to identify the actualized affordance. Descriptive and correlation analysis were applied in the street redesign strategies. In the end of study, new physical elements were added on the potential affordance based on the framework of safe environment, size and layout of the street, place to pause and stay, place to play and learn, green space and the quality of equipment and materials. It leads to better design solutions for child-friendly street spaces in high-density community.
AB - Advocating for child-responsive urban settings can bring five benefits for sustainable development and designing child-friendly street environment in neighbourhood level plays an important role in children’s healthy growth. However, a series of problems and dangerous conditions are exacerbated by currently vehicle-oriented street design, especially in the high-density residential area. This research examines using the approach of environmental affordance to assess the street spatial resources and promote the child-friendly street design. The study conducted in the Mingdong community, Ningbo city, China. It’s a typical high-density community and one main street inside for children travelling from home to school was selected as the research sample. To collect the data, researcher used the methods of observation, documentation and interview with children to identify the actualized affordance. Descriptive and correlation analysis were applied in the street redesign strategies. In the end of study, new physical elements were added on the potential affordance based on the framework of safe environment, size and layout of the street, place to pause and stay, place to play and learn, green space and the quality of equipment and materials. It leads to better design solutions for child-friendly street spaces in high-density community.
KW - Child-friendly street design
KW - Environmental affordance approach
KW - High-density community
KW - Practice in Mingdong community
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85128724033
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-19-1704-2_25
DO - 10.1007/978-981-19-1704-2_25
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85128724033
SN - 9789811917035
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 272
EP - 282
BT - Environment and Sustainable Development - Proceedings of the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development
A2 - Ujikawa, Keiji
A2 - Ishiwatari, Mikio
A2 - Hullebusch, Eric van
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 6 November 2021 through 8 November 2021
ER -
