مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - A Study on the Competence of Children s Playgrounds: An Example of Uşak City Kemaloz District

Abstract :

Childhoods period basis for the development of personality individuals and quickly learned about the many cases in life. These teachings for children take place in the game. Thanks to the kids games children have acquired solidarity, sharing and to play a role skills and socialization has began in childhood. For this process which is the basis of the individual behaviors of children who exhibit on the adult period no doubts clear the presence and importance of playground area. The study was done Kemaloz District of Usak City. With position this area is shows rapid development urbanization process and preferred as a modern residential area. Geographic information systems were used in this study method. By means of the “Geomedia Professional 4.0” software spatial information of the determined children’ playgrounds were transferred to the digital medium. In this study children’s playground in the area which examined qualitatively and quantitatively, distribution status of the children’s playground, access distance to the residence and shown with the maps. As a result, with the children’s playgrounds’ numerical data obtained from geographical information system by comparing the census data determined amount of area per capita and suggestions were made.