An interdisciplinary debate on project perspectives
From: Towards inclusive and accessible parks in Pathum Thani Province, Thailand
Section | Description and objectives | Motivation | Considerations for persons with disabilities | Author(s)/source(s) |
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3.1 | The design of public spaces should consider people's livelihoods as a top priority | Human dimension absents in the city-making process during the previous decades | N/A | Wan et al. (2021) |
3.2 | Public spaces are places that are shared equally by all parties involved in the city | Lack of public spaces; general diffused lack of accessibility | N/A | American Planning Association (2006); Carmona, 2018; |
3.3 | Green public spaces and parks are areas for everyone; | Good practices and state-of-the-art in contemporary visions of city-making | Yes | U.S. Department of Justice, ADA Act (2010) U.S. Department of Justice, ADA Standard (2010) American Planning Association, APA (2006) European Institute for Design and Disability, EIDD (2022) Royal Thai Government, (2021); Thai Civil Rights and Investigative Journalism (2019) UN (2006) World Bank (2019) Rafizadeh (2020) |
3.4 | Green public spaces and parks can include Universal Design concepts for people with disabilities, who are included in the city-making by principles of social equality | Contemporary institutional Need for actual inclusiveness, to be integrated in a new series of public spaces’ interventions | Yes | Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica INU (2006); Connell et al. (1997) Oliver (1998) UN (2022a); UN (2022b); UN-Habitat (2015) UN-Habitat (2018) UN-Habitat (2020) Siqi et al. (2020) |
3.5 | The design of green public spaces and parks by Universal Design concept has to consider accessibility and inclusivity | Reaching a new future level of integration in the provision of urban green public spaces | Yes | Benepe (2019) Stanley (1968) |