Evaluating Research on Landscape Architecture and Disability in Scopus Publications

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Mahyar Neshat-Gharamalaki, Habib Shahhoseini, Sahar Toofan

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The so-called Universal Design is mainly characterized by a broad understanding of space and the needs of people with disability to join urban life; in this connection, landscape architecture is responsible for generating ergonomic-sensitive exterior spaces for public and private use to help meet disabled people’s needs in the interaction between the artificial and natural environments. The objective of this study was to explore articles from credible Journals of Landscape Architecture and Disability in the Scopus Publication Journal. This study employed a qualitative method and a meta-study strategy to review 148 research articles in 74 journals on Landscape Architecture and Disability published from early 2020 to the end of 2023, emphasizing such keywords as Disability, Landscape, Green space, Garden Park, Greenery, Space, Trees, among others, available at https://www.sciencedirect.com. Findings of articles on landscape architecture and disability mainly featured such elements as sustainability, landscape, environmental psychology, passive defense, historical research, design processes, tourism, physical studies, and environmental perception; these articles, meanwhile, used modern design techniques to meet disability sustainability in landscape elements. The methodology of the articles consisted mainly of a 60% quantitative section (35% survey, and 25% experimental) and a 40% qualitative section (16% case studies, 14% review articles, 7% ethnographic studies, 2% descriptive-analytical, and 1% individual studies). The articles’ variables were mainly composed of abstract/subjective, concrete, mediator/relational, observational, and affected variables at rates of 31, 31, 30, 6, and 2%, respectively. The articles were found to apply three scientific, experimental, and psychological processes, the findings of which could serve as a comprehensive guide to prospective research on the role of disability in landscape architecture.

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