Older people's navigation of urban areas as pedestrians: Measuring quality of the built environment using oral narratives and virtual routes

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 163-168

  Walford, Nigel ^a   Samarasundera, Edgar ^a   Phillips, Judith ^b   Hockey, Ann ^c   Foreman, Nigel ^d  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multimedia; Navigation; Older people; Urban design quality; Walking

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; MULTIMEDIA; OLDER PEOPLE; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SENIOR CITIZENS; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN LANDSCAPE; WALKING;

NAVIGATION;

BUILDING; NAVIGATION; NEIGHBORHOOD; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; VIRTUAL REALITY; WALKING;

EID: 79751535403     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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