scholarly journals ACCESSIBILITY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF URBAN AREA: CASE STUDY OF GEORGE TOWN, PENANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikhwan Ali Wazani ◽  
Diana Mohamad ◽  
Mastura Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Survey Techniques ◽  
George Town

Persons with Disabilities (PwD) confront several challenges that hinder them from fully exercising their rights and participating in social, professional, and cultural activities when it comes to accessing built environment. This paper is to investigate the accessibility challenges that PwD face in George Town, Penang. The questionnaire survey techniques employed was to obtain data from a group of PwD. The questionnaire was conducted on wheelchair users, the walking impaired, the visually impaired, and the hearing impaired in George Town areas. Most PwD three key challenges, such as narrow sidewalks, uneven sidewalk surfaces, barriers on sidewalks and dangerous drop curbs. Accessibility facilities in George Town still need to be improved to make it easier for PwD to get around. The findings and recommendations in this study would assist in improving current access to a built environment so that PwD may visit the George Town areas easily and safely.

scholarly journals Estimating the Rainwater Potential per Household in an Urban Area: Case Study in Central Mexico

Water ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 4622-4637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana Lizárraga-Mendiola ◽  
Gabriela Vázquez-Rodríguez ◽  
Alberto Blanco-Piñón ◽  
Yamile Rangel-Martínez ◽  
María González-Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Central Mexico

scholarly journals Heritage Buildings Conservation in the Light of Sustainable Built Environment: A Case Study of Few Selected Projects in Samarkand City

2020 ◽  
Vol 495 ◽  
pp. 012034
Author(s):  
Anvar Safarov Normatovich ◽  
Dong Wei ◽  
S G Dalibi ◽  
I I Danja ◽  
A A Mukhtar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Heritage Buildings

Process of informal land transaction: A case study in the peri-urban area of Addis Ababa

GeoJournal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiwaye Mersha ◽  
Solomon Mulugeta ◽  
Ephrem Gebremariam
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Land Transaction

scholarly journals A Case Study of a Large Unstable Mass Stabilization: “El Portalet” Pass at the Central Spanish Pyrenees

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7176
Author(s):  
Guillermo Cobos ◽  
Miguel Ángel Eguibar ◽  
Francisco Javier Torrijo ◽  
Julio Garzón-Roca
Keyword(s):  
Water Table ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Slope Stabilization ◽  
Survey Techniques ◽  
Geotechnical Investigations ◽  
Spanish Pyrenees ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Unstable Slope ◽  
Total Stability

This case study presents the engineering approach conducted for stabilizing a landslide that occurred at “El Portalet” Pass in the Central Spanish Pyrenees activated due to the construction of a parking lot. Unlike common slope stabilization cases, measures projected here were aimed at slowing and controlling the landslide, and not completely stopping the movement. This decision was taken due to the slow movement of the landslide and the large unstable mass involved. The degree of success of the stabilization measures was assessed by stability analyses and data obtained from different geotechnical investigations and satellite survey techniques such as GB-SAR and DinSAR conducted by different authors in the area under study. The water table was found to be a critical factor in the landslide’s stability, and the tendency of the unstable slope for null movement (total stability) was related to the water table lowering process, which needs more than 10 years to occur due to regional and climatic issues. Results showed a good performance of the stabilization measures to control the landslide, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach followed, and which became an example of a good response to the classical engineering duality cost–safety.

Inclusion by Design: A 75-Minute Crash Course on Accessible Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 831-835
Author(s):  
Julian Brinkley ◽  
Earl W. Huff
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Creative Problem ◽  
Community Of Researchers ◽  
Minute Session

The community of researchers supporting instruction on design thinking has a significant body of materials to help students understand and master the process of creative problem solving in design. Missing, we argue are materials and processes which directly support the design of inclusive technologies for persons with disabilities. We present ‘Inclusion by Design’, an interactive and participative crash course designed to introduce students to techniques that may be useful in an inclusive design process. In a single 75-minute session, students explore the inclusive design of a transportation technology for a visually impaired persona. We report on our findings from a single pilot of the crash course involving six diverse students within a graduate course on Inclusive Design. Our findings suggest that the course may be effective in introducing techniques like storyboarding, scenario creation, and low fidelity prototyping to students using an approach that may be effective for various learning styles.

scholarly journals Analysis of energy usage in mosques in urban area with tropical climate: case study in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 599 ◽  
pp. 012091
Author(s):  
Suhono ◽  
A D Athaya ◽  
L H Anwari ◽  
F D H Sinaga ◽  
S F Hadaina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Tropical Climate ◽  
Energy Usage
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