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Assessing Pedestrian Accessibility to Green Space Using Gis

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Assessing Pedestrian Accessibility to Green Space Using Gis
 
Creator MORAR, Tudor; Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Arch., Faculty of Architecture,
“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism,
Sibiu, Romania
RADOSLAV, Radu; Professor, Ph.D. Arch., Faculty of Architecture,
Polytechnic University of Timișoara, Timișoara, R
SPIRIDON, Luiza Cecilia; Student, Faculty of Architecture, Polytechnic University
of Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania
PĂCURAR, Lidia; Student, Faculty of Architecture, Polytechnic University
of Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania
 
Subject accessibility; GIS; urban parks; network analysis; QOL
 
Description This paper aims at comparing the parameter of green space per capita currently requested by the Romanian legislation to accessible green space per capita. The comparison is undertaken through a Geographic Information System methodology that uses publicly available data to evaluate actual population numbers with pedestrian access to parks and green squares. Using the city of Timișoara as a case study, population is divided into three main groups according to neigh borhood type in order to investigate the urban planning implications of residential typologies in relation to green space. Two scenarios are compared, namely the existing situation which describes access to municipally-administered parks and squares and the possible situation where both existing and informal green spaces are considered. The main findings show that, at present, only a quarter of the city’s population benefits from proper access, yet by developing all residual green areas this proportion could be raised to over 40%. However, the current parameter of square meters per person requested by the Romanian legislation proves to be insufficient in indicating green space accessibility because of the uneven distribution of population and green areas across the city.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
Contributor This work was partially supported by the strategic grant POSDRU 107/1.5/S/77265, within POSDRU Romania 2007-2013 co-fi nanced by the European Social Fund – Investing in People.
 
Date 2014-06-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/94
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2014: Issue No. 42 E/June; 116-139
18422845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/94/90
 
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