The Impact of Urban Configuration on the Accessibility of Disabled People

城市形态对残疾人可达性的影响

--A case study from Algiers, Algeria  一个来自阿尔及利亚阿尔及尔的案例研究

CHEMSEDDINE HACINI，PhD student, University of Angers/ ESO lab, France. University of Biskra/ LaCoMoFa lab, Algeria

YASSINE BADA，Professor, University of Biskra/ LaCoMoFa lab, Algeria.

CHRISTIAN PIHET，Professor, University of Angers/ ESO lab, France.

KEYWORDS: Urban Accessibility, Disabled people, Urban Configuration, Space Syntax, Algiers

【关键词】 城市可达性; 残疾人; 城市形态; 空间句法; 阿尔及尔

来源：本文来自于第十二届空间句法北京会议，文件夹 "Humanised Place" , 序号 242 ;

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ABSTRACT 摘要

In Algeria, people with disabilities often struggle against the inaccessibility of cities, these problems related to accessibility, and physical barriers of the urban environment have a negative impact on the quality of life of people with physical disability, since it prevents them from carrying out their daily tasks and living their life in a pleasant way, moving freely and by planning outings to attractive and leisure places to relax and change air, which contributes to the problems of social segregation.

      在阿尔及利亚，于残疾人而言，城市的可达性很差，他们常常挣扎于这个情况。这些与无障碍环境相关的问题以及城市环境的物理障碍对肢体残疾人的生活质量产生了负面影响，因为这妨碍了他们的日常工作和愉快生活，自由活动以及到吸引人的休闲场放松和换气的出游计划，这就造成了他们与社会隔离的问题。

This paper aims to examine the correlation between the accessibility of people with disabilities and the spatial configuration of public spaces with a case study from Algeria. It has an exploratory perspective and intends to discuss the configurational variables, investigated by means of the theory of the social logic of space from Hillier and Hanson (1984), in studies about universal design and accessibility. It aims to analyze accessibility and the social and spatial dimensions of the experience of disabled individuals and to know the impact of the urban configuration on their perception of the city.

本文以阿尔及利亚为例，旨在探究残疾人的可达性与公共空间形态之间的相关性。 本文以探索性的视角探讨了在通用设计和可达性研究中，运用Hillier和Hanson（1984）的空间的社会逻辑理论来研究配置变量。本研究旨在分析残疾人的可达性及其体验的社会和空间维度，并了解城市形态对他们感知城市的影响。

The paper first starts a qualitative analysis with an in-situ survey conducted in downtown of Algiers, Algeria, which investigates disabled spatial use through an analysis using several techniques: commented path, mental map, and interviews with a group of disabled people. The second part of the paper focuses on the syntactic description of the case of study trough axiality and isovists proprieties by using Depthmap program.

本文首先通过在阿尔及利亚的阿尔及尔市区进行的实地调查开始定性分析，该调查通过以下几种技术的分析来调查残疾人的空间使用：评价路径，心像地图以及与一群残疾人的访谈。本文的第二部分着重于使用Depthmap程序对研究轴线性和等势者专有的情况进行句法描述。

This analysis allows us to apprise the degree of accessibility of Algiers’s public space, as well as the parameters influencing the mobility of people with physical disability, to come up with the conclusion that disabled people perceive and represent public space through its accessibility. The results also showed that the degree of urban accessibility use is strongly related to the urban configuration.

通过分析，我们可以得知阿尔及尔公共空间的可达性程度，以及影响肢体残疾人活动的参数，从而得出残疾人通过可达性感知和表征公共空间的结论。研究结果还表明，城市可达性的使用程度与城市形态有很明显的相关性。

This study will contribute to planners as useful knowledge in urban accessibility, thus, it is imperative to design tools based on ICT (information and communication technologies) to improve their urban mobility.

本研究能够为规划师在城市可达性方面提供有用的知识，因此，设计基于ICT(信息和通信技术)的工具以提高城市机动性势在必行。

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