Older people and outdoor environments: Pedestrian anxieties and barriers in the use of familiar and unfamiliar spaces
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In this paper, the authors explored the experiences of older people as pedestrians in unfamiliar urban spaces and found that there are a number of barriers that are a concern for older people in new environments; these include poor signage, confusing spaces, poor paving and sensory overload.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 105 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Signage & Cognitive decline.read more
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Table 3 Component loadings for way-finding strategy scale. 
Table 4 Component loadings for santa barbara sense of direction scale. 
Table 5 Means and standard deviations of way-finding, spatial anxiety and sense of direction vari 
Table 1 Characteristics of participants. 
Fig. 3. Uncertainty over who has right of way – pedestrians or vehicles?. 
Fig. 2. Examples of pavement obstructions: swinging advertising signs, display stands, temporary road works signs and scaffolding poles.
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The elderly in green spaces: Exploring requirements and preferences concerning nature-based recreation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize existing knowledge about elderly people's preferences, namely, how they interact with green spaces, what landscape characteristics they prefer or dislike, and how practitioners can improve planning to better meet elderly people’s needs.
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Review of safety and mobility issues among older pedestrians.
TL;DR: Current knowledge of older-adult problems with the main components of pedestrian activity, i.e., walking and obstacle negotiation, wayfinding, and road crossing, is reviewed and some recommendations are proposed.
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Elderly satisfaction with planning and design of public parks in high density old districts: An ordered logit model
TL;DR: The results highlight that social connection is considered the most important criteria among the three selected parks, and designs of public parks in the future could provide better space and opportunities for incorporating participation in the general planning and design in their local parks and neighborhoods to enhance healthy aging.
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The Aging Urban Brain: Analyzing Outdoor Physical Activity Using the Emotiv Affectiv Suite in Older People
Chris Neale,Peter Aspinall,Jenny Roe,Sara Tilley,Panagiotis Mavros,Steve Cinderby,Richard Coyne,Neil Thin,Gary G. Bennett,Catharine Ward Thompson +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, older adults were recruited to walk one of six scenarios pairing urban busy (a commercial street with traffic), urban quiet (a residential street) and urban green (a public park) spaces, wearing a mobile Emotiv EEG headset to record real-time neural responses to place.
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How do unfamiliar environments convey meaning to older people? Urban dimensions of placelessness and attachment
TL;DR: The conceptual frameworks underpinning the concepts of place attachment and unfamiliarity have been reviewed in this article, and the relevance of such concepts for understanding urban lifestyles in later life is questioned.
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Image of the city
Abstract: What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imageability -- and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
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The Image of the City
TL;DR: In this article, Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -imageability -and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.
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Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a standardized self-report scale of environmental spatial ability, the Santa Barbara Sense of Direction Scale (SBSOD), which is used for everyday tasks such as finding one's way in the environment and learning the layout of a new environment.
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Gender differences in way-finding strategies: relationship to spatial ability and spatial anxiety
TL;DR: This article found that women were more likely to report attending to instructions on how to get from place to place and maintaining a sense of their own position in relation to environmental reference points than men.
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