뉴욕시 액티브 디자인 가이드라인을 통한 국내 도시공원 사례 연구

Abstract

Due to the development of the medical and science technology, people’s life expectancy has increased and accordingly, people’s interest in physical activity and health promotion is steadily increasing. However, modern people are too busy that most of them have difficulties in having separate time to exercise. Therefore, an environment must be prepared which induces people’s physical activity naturally and substainably. Meanwhile, New York City in the U.S. presented Active Design Guidelines that suggests urban and building design strategies which resulted in reducing the rate of obesity and adult diseases of the citizens. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze domestic urban parks based on the NYC ‘Active Design Guidelines’ and to suggest more effective ways of active design to our domestic urban parks. The importance of health promotion activities for modern people and the NYC ‘Active Design Guidelines’ were analyzed. Among the checklist of active design guidelines in NYC, category items that are suitable for domestic urban parks were extracted and a checklist for domestic urban parks was derived. Based on the reorganized checklist, a field investigation was conducted on three domestic urban parks located in Mapo-gu: Haneul Park, Noeul Park, and Nanjicheon Park. Lastly, a conclusion was drawn through the analysis on the application of active design in domestic urban parks based on the checklist. The results are as follows. First, all the three domestic urban parks had convenient and various facilities. However, they should be supplied various places in order to increase the citizens accessibility and to increase the frequency or duration of visits to the parks. Second, the opening hours were different, and it was difficult to secure stability for pedestrians because the pedestrian roads and automobile roads were not physically separated. Therefore, the adjustment of the opening hours and the physical separation of roads are necessary to allow citizens to access to the parks safely at any time. Third, in the case of information provision, maps and signs existed in all three domestic urban parks, but were not giving detailed information. Bicycle roads were provided around the park making people accessible to the park, but were not well provided inside the park. Therefore, more specific and diverse information should be given to pedestrians and bicyclists using parks. If active design guidelines for Seoul and Seoul citizens are presented in the future, domestic urban parks will be reformed which will eventually help citizens to improve their health.