Voronoi Diagrams for Senior-Friendly Cities

Marta Figurska; Agnieszka Dawidowicz; Elżbieta Zysk

doi:10.3390/ijerph19127447

Voronoi Diagrams for Senior-Friendly Cities

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 17;19(12):7447. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127447.

Authors

Marta Figurska¹, Agnieszka Dawidowicz², Elżbieta Zysk³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Socio-Economic Geography, Institute of Spatial Management and Geography, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland.
² Department of Land Management and Geographic Information Systems, Institute of Spatial Management and Geography, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland.
³ Department of Spatial Analysis and Real Estate Market, Institute of Spatial Management and Geography, Faculty of Geoengineering, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland.

Abstract

Motives: Active aging places (AAP) should be identified during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure the sanitary safety of seniors, prevent older adults from feeling excluded, and eliminate health threats that discourage seniors from being active.

Aim: The aim of this study was to apply a new analytical approach with the use of Voronoi diagrams in GIS tools to spatially identify the AAP in the context of apparent social dynamics.

Methods: An empirical study was conducted with the use of qualitative (literature review, questionnaire survey, AAP classification, visualization of AAP location with GIS tools) and quantitative methods (AAP ranking based on a statistical analysis of survey responses).

Results: Voronoi diagrams were used to determine the accessibility of selected objects in the city of Olsztyn and identify spaces that belong to the social logic of space.

Keywords: GIS; Poland; Voronoi diagrams; active aging; older people; senior-friendly city.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Aging
COVID-19* / epidemiology
Cities
Humans
Pandemics* / prevention & control
Surveys and Questionnaires

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER, Agreement number: UMO-2019/35/B/HS4/01380. Project title: The concept of identifying age-friendly housing estates in the aspect of infrastructural and landscape determinants.