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Malgorzata Gerus-Gosciewska
Evaluation of urban space in the context of environmental psychology
and safety
| Conference Information: |
9th International Conference on Environmental
Engineering, MAY 22-24, 2014 Vilnius, LITHUANIA |
| Source: |
ICEE-2014 - International Conference on Environmental
Engineering |
| Book Series: |
International Conference on Environmental Engineering
(ICEE) Selected papers |
| ISSN: |
ISSN 2029-7092 online |
| ISBN: |
978-609-457-640-9 / 978-609-457-690-4 CD |
| Year: |
2014 |
| Publisher: |
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Press Technika |
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Abstract
The city as a complex organism has the task of ensuring safety to people besides fulfilling their physical and social needs. In creating
space around us, we use its resources and values for our own use, to form the best existence possible. Taking into consideration the
assumptions of environmental psychology that there is a feedback relationship between man and the environment, we can assume that in
shaping a safe space, we shape our safety. The aim of the paper is an evaluation of urbanized geospace features, in the context of safety
using environmental psychology. The effect of space components on safety was obtained from the results of a questionnaire survey to
identify the importance of specific features. The results were standardized by quotient transformation relative to a reference point, where
the maximum value was adopted as the reference point. The evaluation was carried out in the context of the intensity of the presence of
individual geospatial features in urban space and the evaluation result is a safety risk map. The evaluation results can be used to determine
rules which can contribute to the solution of practical problems related to the shaping of safe urban space.
Keywords: physical planning; characteristics of space; safe urban space; environmental psychology.
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