Adaptability Program of Public Space for People with Small Height condition in Pamplona, Norte de Santander, Colombia.

Abstract

In the context of the recognition of diversity, access to the city is important, even more so if one considers that from the urban system the political, social, cultural and economic dynamics vital to good development as a human being are structured. The objective is to formulate a program of adaptability of the public space for the inclusion of the population with a short stature in Pamplona, Norte de Santander. A research of mixed, abductive, descriptive scope and case study modality was carried out. The collection of information was carried out through instruments of demographic, socioeconomic and physical characterization of the target population and the public space. The program design process included the phases of analytical and conceptual information, contextual analysis and formulation. The process for the creation of the program of adaptability of the public space was established, considering the determining aspects of social planning in its formulation including diagnosis, objectives, population, location, strategies, lines of action, indicators, goals and resources. The articulation or application of the national and local urban planning regulations for the provision of public spaces adapted to the condition of short stature was not evident, however, theoretical, conceptual and normative aspects were determined for their orientation, as well as characteristics of people with short stature and public space factors, which allowed establishing the physical determinants of the condition and the importance of their inclusion in the city's social planning.

Keywords: adaptability, public space, short height, accessibility. 

Topic: The research is located in the thematic focus Territorial analysis and project; since the formulation of the program generates a critical study of the problem of the adaptability of public space for people with disabilities, explicitly the condition of short height in the city of Pamplona, ​​Norte de Santander, Colombia, and from the study, strategies, lines of action, indicators and sectoral goals are created, with an operational orientation that deals with the identified challenges.