| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 建築及都市設計學系碩士在職專班 === 106 === In the modern society with high building structures being the main platform, public parks are consider as the main recreational area and becomes the oasis in the desert of the city. These public parks also serves children’s outdoor activities for games and also a place for engaging with natures to reach relaxations. The children’s supervisors have use these public parks as their main activities area with their children and also their first choice. Therefore, the friendliness of these areas becomes extremely important. Since traveling too far away from home and spending too much cost for the children is not likely the option for the parents and supervisors, these public parks nearby homes that can provide huge recreation areas have become their favorites.
The studies of the friendliness from these public parks towards the Children’s supervisor has not quite been research and therefore this study main topic will be on how user friendly the parks are to the supervisors. Keep in mind most of the user in these parks are the supervisors and children’s that are not yet enroll in school. Therefore the range of study will be on these people, their characteristics, their expectations and requirements. These data and information must be utilize by the local government that will include them in the criteria for designing and planning new recreation parks in the future.
Taoyuan Tung-An Parent-Child Park was the main location for this study by collecting sample survey, real people interviews and specific area observations. According to the above research and study, this recreational park provide activity places mostly for the female supervisors and children that are not yet enroll at school. Among these female supervisor, 40.15% age range from 26 to 35, 31.82% age range from 66-75, meaning they are either full time moms and babysitters, or they are grandparents assisting in babysitting their grandchildren inside this park. All of them take the children out to this park for the recreational facilities allowing the children to healthy exercise and exploit their accomplishments and generate confidence, positive emotional and mental growth as well. Meanwhile the supervisors are expecting relaxations as well in this park.
According to the research and this study above, there were negative feedbacks from the users regarding the user-friendliness of this park towards the supervisors and the children. First is the facility management and area’s sanity being not up to the mark. Second is the signs inside the park are not clear enough due to its character size and color that cause uncomfortableness to the children and their supervisors. Thirdly the washrooms inside the park are not equip with children facilities, no specific handicap area and the sanity inside the washroom is a problem. Lastly the park entrance is flooded with motorbikes and vehicles and there are no handicap pathways for the wheel chair and baby strollers which created huge deficiency of security and protection for the children playing inside the park.
As for the local government and related departments, these needs from the user are not well understood and since there are a variety of users in this park the local government are not able to satisfy all types of users at the same time. Therefore, there are no instruction yet so far to rectify the above negative items.
Tao Yuan Tung-An Parent Child Park is supposed to be a user friendly park to the children and the supervisors where its name is given for children/parenting purpose. Therefore, it is absolute important to rectify and improve all the negative things in this park in hoping that the local government can improve the quality of this park by using the result of this research and study, taking all the requirement and expectations from the supervisors into account in redesigning this park, hence providing the children and their supervisors a user friendly park for relaxation.
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