Designers' Attitudes Towards Disabled People and the Compliance of Public Open Places: The Case of Istanbul

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dc.contributor.authorEvcil, Nilay
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T10:35:24Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T10:35:24Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractAlthough accessibility has become one of the major concerns in both urban design and architecture, many urban facilities are still non-compliant with accessibility standards. This paper aims to assess designers' attitudes towards disabled people in Istanbul and to test their responses by determining the compliance with access standards for Istanbul's public open places. The study used the United Nations implementation checklist on accessibility, which covers 19 items of 4 main groups. Data were collected at four crowded public squares of old and new centres of Istanbul chosen randomly. The highest compliance was found in Kadikoy square (39%), whereas the lowest was found in Besiktas (26.3%). To assess designers' knowledge of disabled people's needs, a questionnaire was presented to 114 architects and contractors. Data showed that the majority of them did not learn about disabled people's needs in the physical environment during their professional education and that in their projects today, they provide accessible environments only for wheelchair users. In short, due to gaps in the system that educates professional designers and the absence of enforcement, the examined open public squares in Istanbul have accomplished very little in terms of accessibility for disabled people.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09654313.2010.512178
dc.identifier.endpage1880en_US
dc.identifier.issn0965-4313
dc.identifier.issn1469-5944
dc.identifier.issue11en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-77958030549en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage1863en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2010.512178
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/4411
dc.identifier.volume18en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000282967400006en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Planning Studiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.titleDesigners' Attitudes Towards Disabled People and the Compliance of Public Open Places: The Case of Istanbulen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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