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Older people's navigation of urban areas as pedestrians: Measuring quality of the built environment using oral narratives and virtual routes

Nigel Walford, Edgar Samarasundera, Judith Phillips, Ann Hockey, Nigel Foreman

Landscape and Urban Planning, Volume: 100, Issue: 1-2, Pages: 163 - 168

Swansea University Author: Judith Phillips

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.12.006

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Few studies of navigation and walkability of the outdoor built environment have taken a 'virtual' approach. This study we examine the qualitative oral narratives of forty-eight older people provided while they watched film footage of a journey around an unfamiliar, urban landscape. These a...

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Published in: Landscape and Urban Planning
ISSN: 0169-2046
Published: 2011
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