Methodological proceedings to evaluate the physical accessibility in urban historic sites.
Historic urban sites are set by cultural and social diversities, generating multiple activities and use and access to these sites should be available to all people including those with disabilities. Taking into consideration that using the same methodology that was used in different historic sites researches with positive results facilitates replication, we aimed to develop methodological procedures that identify conditions of physical accessibility in open public spaces and access to public buildings in historic urban sites to support proposals about design requirements for improvements to the problems diagnosed and control inadequacies of the physical environment. The study methods and techniques from different areas of knowledge culminated in a proposal built with an emphasis on user participation that could be applied with low cost and in relatively short period of time.
Department of Design, Federal University of Pernambuco, Professor Moraes Rego Avenue, 1235 - Cidade Universitária. Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. gabrielasousaribeiro@gmail.com
Gabriela Sousa
GS
Ribeiro
Laura Bezerra
LB
Martins
Circe Maria Gama
CM
Monteiro
D001107:Architectural Accessibility; D001938:Brazil; D002947:Cities; D004777:Environment; D006804:Ergonomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design