scholarly journals Sustainable Accessibility: A Mobile App for Helping People with Disabilities to Search Accessible Shops

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Mayordomo-Martínez ◽  
Juan Carrillo-de-Gea ◽  
Ginés García-Mateos ◽  
José García-Berná ◽  
José Fernández-Alemán ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Software Process ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Motor Disabilities ◽  
Universal Accessibility ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
The City

People with motor disabilities must face many barriers and obstacles in their daily lives, making it difficult to perform everyday tasks. The purpose of this work is to improve their living conditions by providing an app with accessibility information in an updated, reliable and friendly form. The development of the system integrates national and regional accessibility regulations, architectural aspects, with an extensive field work, and a sustainable software process. The levels of accessibility and the requirements of the application are defined in the first phases of the project. The field work included the evaluation of 357 commercial establishments in the city of Murcia, Spain, showing that only 25% have a good accessibility, 40% are practicable with help, and 35% are inaccessible shops. The proposed system achieves its objectives of being sustainable and helping in the accessibility. Besides, the system can be a great incentive for businesses to improve their accessibility conditions. In conclusion, new technologies must have a much more active role in the promotion of universal accessibility. These tools must also consider the necessary requirements of sustainable development.

scholarly journals Design and Development of a Mobile App for Accessible Beach Tourism Information for People with Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 2131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Mayordomo-Martínez ◽  
Juan-Carlos Sánchez-Aarnoutse ◽  
Juan M. Carrillo-de-Gea ◽  
José A. García-Berná ◽  
José Luis Fernández-Alemán ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Motor Disabilities ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Beach Tourism ◽  
Tourism Information ◽  
Global Increase ◽  
High Level

The global increase in the proportion of the population with disabilities has caused a greater awareness toward guaranteeing their use of public services. In particular, there is emphasis on the accessibility and inclusivity of tourism resources, to improve the enjoyment and well-being for people with motor disabilities. This paper presents a case study on accessibility to beaches in the Region of Murcia, Spain, which is one of the main tourist areas in the country. First, the most important elements that allow for the accessible use of beaches are analyzed and exposed in detail. Then, an extensive field-work in the area of interest has been carried out and its results are evaluated. Finally, the development of a new mobile app is described. The objective of this tool is to provide updated, accurate, and reliable accessibility information regarding the beaches. As a result, more than a third of the beaches analyzed had a high level of accessibility, while almost another third are totally inaccessible. The proposed application is a valuable tool, not only to help people with physical and motor disabilities, but also to raise awareness among local authorities to create and improve accessible services.

scholarly journals Polícia e juventude: conflitos, incertezas e (des) confianças

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Henrique De Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Important Stage ◽  
Perpetrators And Victims ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Este artigo analisa as certezas e incertezas do trabalho de campo a partir de uma pesquisa realizada com policiais militares na cidade do Rio de Janeiro sobre as juventudes com as quais os policiais lidam em seu cotidiano. O trabalho de campo é uma etapa do fazer antropológico extremamente importante, mas analisar as percepções e práticas de um grupo onde a desconfiança é a norma provoca muitos obstáculos e desafios à pesquisa. A relação entre policiais e jovens é repleta de conflitos e não raramente os policiais são autores e vítimas de violência. Entretanto, nesta pesquisa procurei compreender os policiais em seus próprios termos, sem necessariamente julgá-los em suas ações. Somente deste modo é possível caminhar entre as incertezas inerentes ao trabalho de campo.Palavras-chave: Polícia. Conflitos. Juventude. Incertezas. Trabalho de campo.Police and youth: conflicts, uncertainties and (dis)trustsAbstractThis article examines the certainties and uncertainties of field work from a survey of police officers in the city of Rio de Janeiro on youths with which the police deal in their daily lives. Fieldwork is an extremely important stage of anthropological do but analyze the perceptions and practices of a group where distrust is the norm causes many obstacles and challenges to research. The relationship between police and youth is full of conflicts and often the police are perpetrators and victims of violence. However, this research sought to understand the police on their own terms, without necessarily judging them in their actions. Only in this way can walk among the uncertainties inherent in fieldwork.Key words: Police. Conflicts. Youth. Uncertainties. Field work. 

Milestone solution for snow removal problem in Moscow

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-72
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Winter Period ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Snow Removal ◽  
Surface Areas ◽  
The City ◽  
Deicing Agents

The main principle of the strategy for the complex improvement of the functioning of northern cities in winter, including their infrastructure development, is a comprehensive solution of the problem of industrial-scale snow-mass collection, removal and utilization at different areas of urban roadway networks. For its implementation in the capital of Russia, “MosvodokanalNIIproject” JSC developed in 2002 the Snow Removal Master Plan for the city of Moscow. The meteorological conditions in the city, which have changed considerably in the recent years, including the changes in the snow-cover depth and in the road-surface areas to be cleaned, as well as emerging of new technologies for the cleaning of urban streets, yards and sidewalks and some new types of deicing agents, resulted in the necessity to update the above-mentioned Snow Removal Master Plan developed for the city of Moscow. Efficient application of deicing agents is of special importance for its updating in the context of the environmental safety of the city in a winter period. The article considers the results of the implementation of the updated Snow Removal Master Plan and contains some proposals concerning snow removal under the conditions of extreme snowfalls.

scholarly journals Locate your soundscape: interacting with the acoustic environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Orio ◽  
Berardina De Carolis ◽  
Francesco Liotard
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Initial Experiment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
Entire Country ◽  
Interactive Map ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The City

AbstractAlthough overshadowed by visual information, sound plays a central role in how people perceive an environment. The effect of a landscape is enriched by its soundscape, that is, the stratification of all the acoustic sources that, often unconsciously, are heard. This paper presents a framework for archiving, browsing, and accessing soundscapes, either remotely or on-site. The framework is based on two main components: a web-based interface to upload and search the recordings of an acoustic environment, enriched by in- formation about geolocation, timing, and context of the recording; and a mobile app to browse and listen to the recordings, using an interactive map or GPS information. To populate the archive, we launched two crowdsourcing initiatives. An initial experiment examined the city of Padua’s soundscape through the participation of a group of undergraduate students. A broader experiment, which was proposed to all people in Italy, aimed at tracking how the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown was dramatically changing the soundscape of the entire country.

What is the Fjord City?

TERRITORIO ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Marius Grřnning
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Cultural Orientation ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Institutional Stability ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The City

Fjord City is the slogan for the development of the Oslo waterfront. What appears as a unified design is in reality a mosaic of interventions implemented gradually under different conditions. The 1980s were characterised by a cultural orientation to give priority to the urban centre in a climate of political polarisation, economic liberalism and institutional transformation. In the 1990's the state resumed an active role, in conditions offinancial crisis, launching new policies and new regulatory mechanisms. Norway re-established institutional stability in 2000 and Fjord City reflects the form of government that replaced the traditional model of social democratic planning. The organisation of decision-making for the development of the city are to be seen on this ground of interaction between physical space and the institutional sphere.

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON THE ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN OF TRIPOLI

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-311
Author(s):  
AbuRawi Mustafa ALMARKIYAH ◽  
Fouziya Alzarqani Ipraheem FADHLULLAH
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Motion Path ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Study Case ◽  
The City

Tripoli is a city of a Mediterranean Sea climate; this has contributed with some social and religious factors to affect the architectural and urban design, which all originally has come from the Islamic content. This study argues the climatic features of Tripoli in order to show the ways followed by the Libyan Muslim architect. In other words, these ways were used to adapt with the climate and create the demanding architectural treatments, which have served the building units. This is considered as a study case that can discuss the possibility of the climatic reflection on the walls. That is to say, the walls’ thickness, the type of the used substance in building, the substance’s properties, the type of roof used in covering the building units and the architectural design of the building as treatments achieved professionally by the architect in decreasing the heat in summer and increasing the heat in winter through the mass block. Additionally, the researchers have stated that Tripoli’s building design respected the privacy of the inhabitants and their isolation from the world outside their buildings. That is because they wanted to have their own cold spaces inside which were rich of light, air and shadow. As a result of the aforementioned considerations, the architectural buildings contained the uncovered space and the broken entrance to keep the privacy from the passengers and to protect the inhabitants from wind and sand. These were regarded as final solutions for the architectural and climatic problem. Further, this study illustrates the active role of using the planning including the architectural formations and the treatments of motion path. That is according to their width, their length, their form, their guidance and their direction change in order to make shadow and isolate the front of buildings. This also contributed to give the streets the northern wind which in turn helped to keep the air moving as long as possible to tone down the climatic influences. Moreover, the planning aimed to show its turn through analytical, architectural and documentary survey for realistic examples in the archeological registrar of the potential city treatments. These architectural elements were important in making the sustainable architecture in respect to the environment and human relaxation requirements. Finally, the researchers measured the following factors temperatures, wind, rain, and ratio humidity for variety of spaces in the city. That was followed by qualitative and quantitative statistical analysis supported by graphs

PENGEMBANGAN KONSEP OPEN GOVERMENT UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KUALITAS LAYANAN KOTA PALEMBANG (STUDI KASUS : KOTA PALEMBANG)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-90
Author(s):  
Tri Akhyari Romadhon ◽  
M. Izman Herdiansyah
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Quality Measurement ◽  
City Government ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
Civil Society Participation ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The City

Open Government is committed to improving the quality of information availability on government activities, supporting civil society participation in government, upholding professional standards in public administration to prevent corruption, abuse of power and increasing access to the use of new technologies to support accountability and openness. Currently, many governments have implemented e-government which supports the government's goals in open government. Where, e-government is used to describe the use of technology in carrying out several government tasks. The city government of Palembang has several applications or e-government systems that are open government. The city government of Palembang has not made a quality measurement of the e-government that has been implemented, so it is not known the level of quality in each application or system implemented. Based on this explanation, it is necessary to analyze the level of service quality in the system that has been implemented by the Palembang City Government.

Status and Context: Sri Lankan Potter Women Reconsidered After Field Work in India

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Winslow
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Large River ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
City Center ◽  
Caste Group ◽  
Flat Area ◽  
Indian State ◽  
The City

In February 1989, in Pune, a city of a million people in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, I visited a simple outdoor pottery workshop. It consisted of a shallow pit kiln surrounded by eleven spaces shaded by gunny sacks on a flat area at the top of stairs leading down to a large river that ran through the city center. The families who used this space werekumbhars, members of a Hindu caste group found throughout the subcontinent. In India to teach, I thought that time spent with these potters might provide a perspective on Sinhalese potters I had known in a Sri Lankan village in the 1970s.The Indian potters were willing, so this first visit was followed by many more over the next four months.

The Historical Emergence of Replication

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haim Goren
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Precise Location ◽  
Work Analysis ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter explores the importance of replication for a crucial historical turning point, when new and progressive scientific measurements of physical locations were being developed. Revisiting a location is of necessary and critical importance when replicating research in the lab or the field, but identifying a precise location can be surprisingly problematic. Geography includes the study and identification of where objects are located and how they are arranged in space. Whether identifying spreads of emergent diseases or distribution of genetically distinct populations, we use maps and topographic contours. The maps used today are the result of over a millennium of repeated field work, analysis, and interpretation that provides additional insight into the process of replication. In this chapter, this process of geographic replication and its criteria of success are illustrated with two examples: the repeated mapping of the city of Jerusalem and the attempt to measure accurately the elevation of the Dead Sea relative to sea level. These examples also reveal multiple motives for repeated exploration and study.

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