Some authors includes to this group to people with permanent disabilities, those with temporary disabilities such us obesity, pregnant woman, among others, and people older than 65 years old. Those that requires accessibility conditions.
Published in Chapter:
Smart and Accessible Cities?: Not Always – The Case for Accessible Tourism Initiatives in Buenos Aries and Sydney
Ana Clara Rucci (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, and Universidad de Alicante, Spain), Natalia Porto (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), Simon Darcy (UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia), and Leandro Becka (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 31
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6428-8.ch006
Abstract
This chapter aims to discuss disability, aging, and accessibility and their relationship with technology trends, taking into account a world full of different kind of constraints, taking Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Sydney (Australia) as study cases. Moreover, the authors also study how a hypothetically smart and accessible city could set the basis for making it touristic for all. Particularly, this chapter focuses on how cities that are being designed and planned under the smart city/destination model do not always consider people with disabilities and seniors in their models. So, these models that leave out more than the 30% of the world's population are not only inappropriate but also ineffective and inefficient, and consequently challenge the underlining sustainability of such projects.