scholarly journals Sustainable Streetscape Design Guideline based on Universal Design Principles

2018 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 01003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bangun IR Harsritanto
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Design Guideline ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
User Friendly

People access the streets to fulfill their daily demands regardless of their gender, age, and abilities. The streetscape is an urban public space which built to facilitate the basic needs of people as social beings. Universal design accommodates the wide range of human diversity in physical appearance, perception, cognitive abilities, body sizes, and shapes. By designing for this diversity, the streetscapes are becoming more user friendly, functional and sustainable. The purpose of this study is to suggest streetscape design guideline based on universal design principles for giving proper directions of sustainable streets development. Literatures study and cases study were used as research methods. The findings indicated that the new guideline based on universal design can be suggested to streetscapes design directions on many countries.

scholarly journals Urban Environment Development based on Universal Design Principles

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 09010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bangun IR Harsritanto
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Development Paradigm

Universal Design is a design which facilitated full range of human diversity. By applying Universal design principles, urban environment can be more functional and more user-friendly for everyone. This study examined five urban streets of South Korea as a country experienced on developing various urban street designs based on universal design. This study aimed to examine and compare the South Korea cases using seven principles of universal design. The research methods of this study are literature study, case study, and site observation. The results of this study are: South Korea cases are good practices, urgency of implementing the direction into local regulations; and change of urban development paradigm.

scholarly journals MENGIDENTIFIKASI VARIABEL KONSEP TAMAN RAMAH DIFABEL Studi Kasus : Taman Nostalgia Kota Kupang

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Johanes M. Taka Longa
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
The City ◽  
Existing Data ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Abstract: Nostalgia Park is one of the efforts of the City of Kupang in fostering the enthusiasm of all City residents to create a culture of planting. The presence of this park is also the only park that has become a public space in the city of Kupang. The function of the City's public space is as a place for citizens to release the boredom of routine in life in the Cities. This place is not accessed by only a group of City residents, but it can be accessed as a whole including people with disabilities who have special abilities. In this study, researchers wanted to identify facilities and accessibility based on universal design principles as a variable concept of a park that is difable-friendly in Nostalgia parks. The method used is descriptive qualitative and then compared the existing data with the literature to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the facilities and accessibility of the Nostalgia park. The results of the analysis found that out of the 6 variable variables of the diffable-friendly concept there are 5 variables that have been applied to the Nostalgia park, but still do not meet the standard of application that is accessible and 1 variable that is not yet available at all.Key words: Variables, Park Concept, Diffable FriendlyAbstrak: Taman Nostalgia adalah salah satu upaya pemerintah Kota Kupang dalam  menumbuhkan semangat seluruh warga Kota untuk menciptakan budaya menanam. Kehadiran taman ini juga menjadi satu-satunya taman yang menjadi ruang publik di Kota Kupang. Fungsi dari ruang publik Kota adalah sebagai tempat bagi  warga masyarakat untuk melepaskan kebosanan akan rutinitas dalam kehidupan di Kota-Kota. Tempat ini tidak diakses oleh sekelompok warga Kota saja, tetapi dapat di akses secara menyeluruh termasuk kaum difabel yang memiliki kemampuan khusus. Dalam kajian ini, peneliti ingin mengidentifikasi fasilitas dan aksesibilitas berdasarkan prinsip desain universal sebagai variabel konsep taman yang ramah difabel pada taman Nostalgia. Metode yang digunakan bersifat kualitatif deskriptif kemudian dikomparasikan data yang ada dengan literatur untuk mengetahui kelebihan dan kekurangan fasilitas dan aksesibilitas taman Nostalgia. Hasil analisis ditemukan bahwa dari 6 variabel konsep ramah difabel terdapat 5 variabel yang sudah diterapkan pada taman Nostalgia, namun masih belum memenuhi standar penerapan yang aksesibel dan 1 variabel yang belum tersedia sama sekali.Kata kunci : Variabel, Konsep taman, Ramah difabel.

scholarly journals Ventilated façade systems. Design and workmanship faults affecting the functionality and safe use

2019 ◽  
Vol 284 ◽  
pp. 02004
Author(s):  
Ołeksij Kopyłow
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Thermal Insulation ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Partition Walls ◽  
Ventilated Facade ◽  
Building Walls ◽  
Cement Sheets

Ventilated facade systems are increasingly used in modern construction industry. It is connected with a wide range of available wall claddings which allow to create distinctive architectural buildings (ventilated facade system made of fiber cement sheets won the prestigious European Prize for Urban Public Space 2016). If constructed properly, the ventilated facade systems have a positive effect on thermal insulation properties of building walls. With an increasing interest in this type of facade solutions, one can also notice an increased number of problems with the quality of the design documentation and construction works which affect the safe use of the building, thermal insulation properties of partition walls, the comfort of use. The paper presents basic faults found in the design and workmanship of the ventilated facade systems.

The Right to Bodily Integrity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Brysk
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Global Pattern ◽  
Popular Resistance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Right

In Chapter 7, we profile the global pattern of sexual violence. We will consider conflict rape and transitional justice response in Peru and Colombia, along with the plight of women displaced by conflict from Syria and Central America, and limited international policy response. State-sponsored sexual violence and popular resistance to reclaim public space will be chronicled in Egypt as well as Mexico. We will track intensifying public sexual assault amid social crisis in Turkey, South Africa, and India, which has been met by a wide range of public protest, legal reform, and policy change. For a contrasting experience of the privatization of sexual assault in developed democracies, we will trace campus, workplace, and military rape in the United States.

scholarly journals A Farewell to the Encephalization Quotient: A New Brain Size Measure for Comparative Primate Cognition

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Carel P. van Schaik ◽  
Zegni Triki ◽  
Redouan Bshary ◽  
Sandra A. Heldstab
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Brain Size ◽  
Estimation Error ◽  
Primate Species ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Encephalization Quotient ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
Size Measure

Both absolute and relative brain sizes vary greatly among and within the major vertebrate lineages. Scientists have long debated how larger brains in primates and hominins translate into greater cognitive performance, and in particular how to control for the relationship between the noncognitive functions of the brain and body size. One solution to this problem is to establish the slope of cognitive equivalence, i.e., the line connecting organisms with an identical bauplan but different body sizes. The original approach to estimate this slope through intraspecific regressions was abandoned after it became clear that it generated slopes that were too low by an unknown margin due to estimation error. Here, we revisit this method. We control for the error problem by focusing on highly dimorphic primate species with large sample sizes and fitting a line through the mean values for adult females and males. We obtain the best estimate for the slope of circa 0.27, a value much lower than those constructed using all mammal species and close to the value expected based on the genetic correlation between brain size and body size. We also find that the estimate of cognitive brain size based on cognitive equivalence fits empirical cognitive studies better than the encephalization quotient, which should therefore be avoided in future studies on primates and presumably mammals and birds in general. The use of residuals from the line of cognitive equivalence may change conclusions concerning the cognitive abilities of extant and extinct primate species, including hominins.

scholarly journals A novel social distancing analysis in urban public space: A new online spatio-temporal trajectory approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 102765
Author(s):  
Jie Su ◽  
Xiaohai He ◽  
Linbo Qing ◽  
Tong Niu ◽  
Yongqiang Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Trajectory Approach ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Temporal Trajectory

Assessing the Ergonomic Benefits of a New Adjustable Forklift Backrest

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 976-980
Author(s):  
Pranav Madhav Kuber ◽  
Ehsan Rashedi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Motion Capture ◽  
Center Of Pressure ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Pressure Change ◽  
Motion Capture System ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Body Sizes ◽  
The Mean

A new forklift backrest has been developed by incorporating adjustability concepts into the design to facilitate comfort to a wide range of users. We have conducted a comparative study between the new and original backrests to assess the effectiveness of design features. Using the phenomenon of restlessness, discomfort of the user was associated with the amount of body movement, where we have used a motion- capture system and a force platform to quantify the individuals’ movement for a wide range of body sizes. Meanwhile, subjective comfort and design feedback were collected using a questionnaire. Our results showed a reduction in the mean torso movement and the maximum center of pressure change of location by 300 and 6 mm, respectively, for the new design. Taking advantage of adjustability feature, the new backrest design exhibited enhanced comfort for longer durations and reduced magnitude of discomfort for a wide range of participants’ body sizes.

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