干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): A Decision Support Toolkit for the Design of Children-Oriented Urban Outdoor Learning Environments

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DOI	10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000864
	A Decision Support Toolkit for the Design of Children-Oriented Urban Outdoor Learning Environments
	Keyvanfar, Ali; Shafaghat, Arezou; Rosli, Noor Azliena Lieana
通讯作者	Shafaghat, A
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
ISSN	0733-9488
EISSN	1943-5444
出版年	2022
卷号	148 期号:3
英文摘要	Urban rapid development has created poor open spaces and fewer outdoor learning environments for children. This issue highlights the quality design of urban public and open spaces that can significantly help children's healthy growth and development. The urban plaza is one of the potential urban open spaces that positively affect the development of talent and creativity in children and develop their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive skills. As public art is an encouraging landscape medium, integrating public art in urban plazas can aid substantially in achieving this goal. The lack of a decision support tool for designing inclusive learning environments at urban plazas has persuaded us to develop the children-oriented urban plaza design (COUP) Toolkit. The COUP Toolkit is a universal tool that can aid design professionals and children's therapists in assessing and evaluating the impact of urban plaza design on children's skills growth. By applying the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method, it was found that the Urban Oasis type of urban plaza contributes the most to skills development in children (W-Alt.3 = 0.336), compared to other types (i.e., street plaza, corporate foyer, transit foyer, street, and grand public place). The COUP toolkit has 14 features for designing the urban plazas embedding the public art. Applying AHP indicated that performance art (W-2.2 = 0.106), interactive instrument art (W-2.3 = 0.106), and spatial composition (W-1.1 = 0.103) are most vital in the design of a children-oriented urban plaza. The COUP toolkit was validated through a case study, the Musical Swings (i.e., 21 Balancoires) urban plaza in Montreal, Canada. The COUP toolkit is a rating system and proposes four grading labels based on the scores earned during the assessment process: gold, silver, bronze, and not-certified. The COUP toolkit determined that Musical Swings is ranked as silver; hence, it needs minor improvements, particularly in providing fountains (WSMC2.5 = 0.57) and wading pools (WSMC2.6 = 0.60) to create a proper learning environment for children.
英文关键词	Children-oriented design Children growth Urban plaza Public art Assessment and labeling Decision support toolkit
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000825756700009
WOS关键词	ART ; CITY ; COMMUNITY ; QATAR ; PARKS
WOS类目	Engineering, Civil ; Regional & Urban Planning ; Urban Studies
WOS研究方向	Engineering ; Public Administration ; Urban Studies
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/393627
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Keyvanfar, Ali,Shafaghat, Arezou,Rosli, Noor Azliena Lieana. A Decision Support Toolkit for the Design of Children-Oriented Urban Outdoor Learning Environments[J],2022,148(3).
APA	Keyvanfar, Ali,Shafaghat, Arezou,&Rosli, Noor Azliena Lieana.(2022).A Decision Support Toolkit for the Design of Children-Oriented Urban Outdoor Learning Environments.JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT,148(3).
MLA	Keyvanfar, Ali,et al."A Decision Support Toolkit for the Design of Children-Oriented Urban Outdoor Learning Environments".JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 148.3(2022).