Abstract
Sociocultural aspects are very critical in the daily life activities of people, including for the disabled, as their mobility limitation quite often cause a handicap for dependency. Disabled-friendly environment design becomes essential for their daily needs of behaviour and activities. This paper aims to investigate how sociocultural aspects guarantee the disabled’s safety and security in urban public spaces in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It searches the conceptual framework of how do the disabled consume the urban public areas, and whether the ICT (Information Communication and Technology) sufficiently support a better solution for the environment. The methods for collecting data used behaviour setting, observation of the physical environment, interviews with interrelated actors in disabled-friendly design to test the results. The preliminary findings show that the use of ICT that psychologically represents the power of techno-socio-cultural network among society is a significant matter to support the solution.
Highlights
Within the broad spectrum of urban design, the urban public space should be designed for all, used for all, enjoyed by all
This paper aims to investigate how sociocultural aspects guarantee the disabled’s safety and security in urban public spaces in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
This study aims to investigate how the role of sociocultural aspects ensure the disabled’s safety and security in urban public spaces in the context of Yogyakarta City Centre, Indonesia
Summary
Within the broad spectrum of urban design, the urban public space should be designed for all, used for all, enjoyed by all It needs an inclusive and accessible design. It requires to offer aspects of safety and security. As the world’s population increases more people will live in cities. According to The World Health Organisation that 15% of the world’s population lives with an impairment or disability. This means more people with disabilities will be living in cities [2]. Having more people with different types of disabilities involved in public space activities helps planners think about the different types of exclusions and barriers that they have to face in their everyday lives.
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