The Community Attitudes Toward a Redesigning Pedestrian Walkway for Urban Redesign Project in Nakhon Sawan City Municipality, Thailand
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This paper describes a qualitative study undertaken to inform strategic planning for an urban redesign project by the Nakhon Sawan City Municipality. The project involved the redesign of an area of the municipality connecting a park and the riverfront to improve access to and use by all users of these public facilities for exercise and recreation. Associated with the success of such a project was the perceived need to engage with residents and other people using and moving between the spaces to better understand the nature and diversity of access needs and specific attitudes held about the proposed redesign project. This paper reports on the findings of the user engagement study undertaken in two stages; 1) a survey of the physical conditions of the site and 2) an exploration of community experiences and attitudes from 32 residents using participant-produced photographs (PPP) with in-depth interviews with the data of which were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Reported in the form of three ‘super-ordinate’ themes, including 1) conflict of occupancy, 2) resident skepticism and 3) mutual compromise, the findings have been adopted by the Nakhon Sawan City Municipality to inform the strategic plan for the proposed urban redesign project.
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