Department of Design Sciences, Lund University.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2023 Jun 22;303:3-9. doi: 10.3233/SHTI230392.
Despite laws, policies, and political visions to create cities and societies for all, barriers still exclude people from using buildings and public places. The commitments made in global agreements such as the Convention on Rights for Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development require significant changes in urban planning to meet the variety of needs and conditions in the population. Implementing Universal Design (UD) in urban planning processes is one important step towards a society for all. Three recent studies in Sweden focused on UD in the urban development - how, where and what factors that supported or impeded UD along the planning and construction processes. The whole process, from signs in visionary programmes and development plans to process-related factors and visible results in the completed buildings and places, were analyzed from a UD perspective. The findings highlight three critical areas to pay particular attention to, when implementing UD in the built environment: Competing and contradictory interests, Critical choices and aspects and Images of the user. These challenges need to be addressed by all actors involved, together in a in a goal-oriented work, to reach common understanding on how an inclusive built environment can be designed and realized.
尽管有法律、政策和政治愿景来创建适合所有人的城市和社会，但障碍仍然使人们无法使用建筑物和公共场所。全球协议如《残疾人权利公约》（CRPD）和 2030 年可持续发展议程中的承诺要求城市规划进行重大变革，以满足人口的各种需求和条件。在城市规划过程中实施通用设计（UD）是迈向全民社会的重要一步。瑞典最近的三项研究关注城市发展中的 UD——在规划和建设过程中，哪些因素支持或阻碍了 UD，以及如何、在哪里支持或阻碍 UD。从 UD 的角度分析了从有远见的计划和发展计划中的标志到与过程相关的因素以及已完成的建筑物和场所中的可见结果的整个过程。研究结果强调了在建筑环境中实施 UD 时需要特别注意的三个关键领域：相互竞争和矛盾的利益、关键选择和方面以及用户形象。所有相关方都需要共同解决这些挑战，共同制定目标，以就如何设计和实现包容性的建筑环境达成共识。
