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Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism ManagementPublicly Accessible Space and Quality of Life: A Tool for Measuring the Openness of Urban Spaces

Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: Publicly... [Safety and security are essential components of urban public space management, particularly since September 11, 2001. Although security is necessary for creating and maintaining publicly accessible spaces, making it a top priority is criticized as restricting social interaction, constraining individual liberties, and unjustly excluding certain populations. We argue that a focus on security and control over broader social goals such as openness and liberty can reduce the quality of life for particular individuals and groups. Therefore, this study examines legal, design, and policy tools used to exert social and behavioral control in publicly accessible urban spaces. Based on a review of the relevant literature as well as extensive site visits to public spaces in New York City, we create a comprehensive index that uses 20 separate indicators in four different broad categories to quantify the degree to which the use of a space is controlled. We demonstrate how the tool can be used and summarize the results of several recent applications. We then suggest several potential applications useful in planning practice and for testing theories about public space.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism ManagementPublicly Accessible Space and Quality of Life: A Tool for Measuring the Openness of Urban Spaces

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 43)
Editors: Budruk, Megha; Phillips, Rhonda
Németh, Jeremy; Schmidt, Stephan
Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management — Nov 20, 2010
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Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
ISBN
978-90-481-9860-3
Pages
41 –66
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-9861-0_4
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Abstract

[Safety and security are essential components of urban public space management, particularly since September 11, 2001. Although security is necessary for creating and maintaining publicly accessible spaces, making it a top priority is criticized as restricting social interaction, constraining individual liberties, and unjustly excluding certain populations. We argue that a focus on security and control over broader social goals such as openness and liberty can reduce the quality of life for particular individuals and groups. Therefore, this study examines legal, design, and policy tools used to exert social and behavioral control in publicly accessible urban spaces. Based on a review of the relevant literature as well as extensive site visits to public spaces in New York City, we create a comprehensive index that uses 20 separate indicators in four different broad categories to quantify the degree to which the use of a space is controlled. We demonstrate how the tool can be used and summarize the results of several recent applications. We then suggest several potential applications useful in planning practice and for testing theories about public space.]

Published: Nov 20, 2010

Keywords: York City; Behavioral Control; Public Space; Surveillance Camera; Public Realm

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