Easy as Child’s Play? Co-designing a Network-Based Metric for Children’s Access to Play Space

Easy as Child’s Play? Co-designing a Network-Based Metric for Children’s Access to Play Space

Teeuwen, R.F.L. (TU Delft Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence)
Psyllidis, A. (TU Delft Internet of Things)

Sangiambut, S. (editor)

2023

Accessible outdoor spaces for unsupervised play are important for children’s health. However, parents impose constraints based on their perception of safety, which can have a significant impact on which play spaces are actually accessible to children. Such constraints are not taken into account by widely adopted accessibility indicators that use generic radial buffers or travel distances. We introduce a child’s play accessibility metric, which measures the ease with which children can reach outdoor play spaces without supervision. We developed this metric through an iterative co-design process with experts on the built environment and children’s health, leveraging open data. Our metric considers traffic, natural barriers to children, and a range of playable spaces. It can be used by planners and policymakers to enable large-scale assessments of play space accessibility, identify associated equity issues, and benchmark progress toward healthier environments for all ages.

Accessibility
Play space
Children
Co-Design
OpenStreetMap

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d82c4b69-8256-4fd0-9b8a-a6dc5127205f

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6YR5V

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM 2023)

The 18th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM), 2023-06-20 → 2023-06-22, Montreal, Canada

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© 2023 R.F.L. Teeuwen, A. Psyllidis