Lack of or poor condition of facilities (including play facilities for children)

Other users (including anti-social behavior)

Concerns about dogs and dog mess

Safety and other psychological issues (e.g., feelings of vulnerability and inertia)

Environmental quality issues such as litter, graffiti and vandalism

2. In addition, access issues may be of concern to the elderly and particularly to people with disabilities. They relate to concerns about the proximity of and ease of access to urban green spaces, access to get into those spaces and ease of moving around safely within them.

3. Most of the barriers may be resource issues which relate to the location, accessibility or environmental quality of urban green spaces and could, therefore, be overcome if planners, designers and managers of these spaces could address them satisfactorily.

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* Contributed by: -
Vempati Karthik,
PGDBM II Semester,
Institute of Public Enterprise,
Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad.