Disabled People and “Mobility”. Proposal for Infrastructures Intended to Prevent Parking in Disabled Spaces and Their Pilot Application in the City
摘要
In recent years, the issue of accessibility for people with mobility difficulties, more and more “aggressively” introduced to all scales of urban planning, but also of its legal interpretation. Even if the “poverty” of the existing infrastructure is another factor that makes this development difficult, for the Greek standards, the design findings of recent years are at least encouraging, albeit in an embryonic stage. Despite this fact, there are daily phenomena in which even these elementary infrastructures become the object of exploitation or/ and violation of elementary rules of civil behavior as well as an indication of civilization. Even if the fact that the specific reality has clear origins of elementary rules and level of education, urban planning must take further measures to deal with such everyday phenomena, by planning and constructing “smart” applications to prevent related phenomena. This article attempts to propose a specific, intelligent, low-cost infrastructure, to prevent parking, in places reserved for people with mobility difficulties. The aim of the specific applications is not prevention with, police-type, countermeasures but the highlighting and social “targeting” of vehicles and users who resort to such methods. The user of the vehicle who will park in this type of spaces, which objectively are few to minimal in Greek cities, will be perceived, with the use of the specific infrastructures, in that the place that he parked his vehicle was not foreseen. Therefore, the specific “violation” will also be noticed by passers-by or users of the land uses of adjacent buildings.