Determination of handicapped people's preference for the use of urban parks in Antalya
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Tarih
2013
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Yayıncı
WFL Publisher Ltd.
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Consistently expanding urban and structured areas make people away from the nature. Therefore, city parks gain importance for meeting people's recreational needs. City parks are public areas open to common use. Because of this characteristic, they should meet each person's need of utilizing them and have infrastructures for any preferences. Therefore, before planning and restoration of city parks, any expectation from various levels of community should be taken into consideration to constitute areas appealing to the whole society. In the present study, socio-demographic factors affecting use preferences of park users living in Antalya city were evaluated. It was found from the result of survey questionnaire conducted in the scope of the study that 86.7% of handicapped people prefer city parks for their recreational activities. Chi-square (?2), independence and chi-square (?2) Trend tests were used to determine significance level of the relationship between participants' socio-demographic characteristics and use preference of city parks. It was also determined as the result of analyses that social security and house type have statistically significant effect on use preference of city parks.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Antalya, City parks, Demographic characteristics, Handicapped people, Preference, Survey
Kaynak
Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
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N/A
Cilt
11
Sayı
3-4
