Keywords
Sensitivity Analysis
Child Mobility
Child-Friendly Cities
Geoprocessing
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Abstract
The article presents the use of geoinformation technologies to support the spatial analysis of the suitability of urban roads for independent child mobility, aiming to understand the differences in opportunities between planned areas of the city and unplanned areas, the latter being an example of social vulnerability. The case studies are developed in connected areas in Belo Horizonte, with the first being the traditional planned city and the second a section of a favela and its surroundings. It explores models of Multicriteria Analysis by Weights of Evidence and Sensitivity Analysis to Suitability Evaluation. Based on the careful selection of analysis variables, supported by an extensive literature review on the subject, thematic maps are created, which characterize each occupation condition, according to physical characteristics, presence of infrastructure, types of use, and human occupation of space. Once the maps have been created with the initial variables, the collection is integrated for the spatial representation of the level of spatial vulnerability, and the levels of uncertainty in the spatial distributions are evaluated. The result is the identification of the planned area as more conducive to child development, in comparison to the social vulnerability area. The approach presents defensible and reproducible criteria for other future case studies.
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