Rijke, Jelmer W. de (2022) The effects of the parental perspective on children's independent mobility and their affordances, in Zuiderburen Leeuwarden. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
Multiple reasons have been brought up for the decline in children's physical health worldwide. Of which one is children's independent mobility, their license to travel and experience their environment without the supervision of their parents. Since parents set the independent mobility of their children, their perception of the urban environment is important. Within their independent mobility, children experience opportunities to interact with their environment, also known as their affordances. This research tries to research the effect of the parental perspective on the children's independent mobility and their affordances via a literature review, a policy analysis and a case study in Zuiderburen, Leeuwarden. It has been found that parents of children aged 9 to 11 experience traffic as dangerous and limit their children's independent mobility to certain crossings with traffic. At the same time, greenery and open spaces are identified as safe and important. Parents are satisfied with the affordances of their children within Zuiderburen. However, more affordances with the sports facilities could be created with an increase in most children's independent mobility, which could be done by changing the priority areas for cyclists or changing parents' perception of traffic.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Planning and Design |
| Supervisor: | Niekerk, F. |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2022 13:49 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 13:49 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4092 |
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