Author(s)

Peichun Tian ^1,2, Soobong Kim ², Jiuyue Wang ³

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Arts, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu Anhui, 241000, China
² Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea
³ North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou Henan, 450046, China

Corresponding Author

Peichun Tian

ABSTRACT

With the rapid development of urban construction in China, the security issue has been increasingly concerned; Safety problems in urban traffic planning, architectural design, urban disaster avoidance and other fields have made great progress from theory to practice. As a small branch, the research on the safety of children's activity space in residential areas is relatively weak and needs further in-depth discussion. With the children as subjects, the safety of residential outdoor space as evaluation object, through the analysis of the related literature and group discussion, this paper selects the safety factors that affect children's outdoor space activities. Through expert questionnaire and the application of AHP method to determine the weight of the indexes, this paper constructs evaluation system and conducts a field survey in five communities. The results show that experts believe that the main factors affecting the outdoor space safety of children in residential areas are the surrounding environment safety, the safety of entertainment venues, and the safety of management and maintenance. Among them, vehicle interference, facility safety, site safety, facility maintenance are considered as the main influencing factors. The results of the questionnaire show that the residents are most worried about vehicle interference, site safety and facility maintenance, which is in agreement with the experts' considerations on safety issues. Three communities scored in between "satisfactory" and "average", one community was graded "average", and one community got the evaluation of "unsatisfactory", indicating that there are still safety deficiencies and hidden dangers in outdoor children's activity space in residential areas, which need to be further improved.

KEYWORDS

Safety Evaluation System, Residential Area, Outdoor Activity Space, Children

CITE THIS PAPER

Peichun Tian, Soobong Kim, Jiuyue Wang, A study on the Safety Evaluation System of Outdoor Children's Activity Space in Residential Area. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2023) Vol. 5: 36-44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2023.050207.

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