Kaden, Ina Muriel (2022) Female Safety Perception, the Built Environment, and Behaviour Choice. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
This paper examines how the safety perception of the built environment influences the behaviour choice of female students. A softGIS approach in the form of a Maptionnaire survey is used to collect spatial, qualitative data. In specific, unsafe areas according to the female survey respondents are mapped for the city of Groningen. The respondent’s comments about the places and routes they marked as unsafe are scrutinized with regard to (1) socio-environmental factors triggering an unsafe feeling, and (2) the decision to avoid or not avoid that particular area. The findings reveal several themes that shape the student’s safety perception and influence their behaviour. The main themes are the presence of lighting that consistently improves the safety of an area, the presence of people and their appearance and actions which has positive or negative impacts, the crowdedness of an area, and the story-telling related to a certain environment.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Daams, M.N. |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2022 08:39 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2022 08:39 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3764 |
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