Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Determination of handicapped people’s preference for the use of urban parks in Antalya

Author(s):

Tahsin Yılmaz ¹, Duygu Gökçe ¹, Atilla Atik ², Bülent Yılmaz ²

Recieved Date: 2013-08-03, Accepted Date: 2013-10-12

Abstract:

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 (χ²), independence and chi-square (χ²) 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.

Keywords:

Handicapped people, city parks, demographic characteristics, preference, survey, Antalya

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Journal: Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
Year: 2013
Volume: 11
Issue: 3&4
Category: Environment
Pages: 2295-2301

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