Vrancken, Eline (2020) Investigation in how the personal perceived safety in city parks is influenced, by its characteristics, in the city Groningen. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Being in urban green spaces contributes to the well-being of people, therefore it is important that the threshold to visit these places is low. This is influenced by the personal perceived safety visitors have when going to city parks. This research will focus on two city parks in Groningen, the ‘Noorderplantsoen’ and ‘Stadspark’. An investigation in how the perceived personal safety is in these city parks and contributing factors are reached via literature review, quantitative data and qualitative data. Conducting questionnaires and interviews, the relation and correlation are tested between safety, the independent variable, and the dependent variables, density, visual accessibility and physical accessibility. Results indicate a relation between safety, density, visual accessibility and physical accessibility. Also the direction of the relation, found with correlation, confirms that if safety increases, then the density, visual and physical accessibility decrease. Concluding, in order to feel safe people prefer a low density, easy visual accessibility and an easy physical accessibility. Furthermore, external factors such as the social dynamic, image of an area and time of visiting all contribute to the perceived personal safety.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Osborne, T. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Aug 2021 16:18 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2021 16:18 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3613 |
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