Assessing the spatial distribution of urban parks using GIS

Oh, Kyoung-Jin; Jeong, Seung-Hyun

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.01.014

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“…However, with the introduction of a development charge system, housing site developers create urban parks and green spaces and donate them to the relevant local governments. This system reduced government expenses but caused an imbalance in urban parks between old and new cities [51,52]. Most of the urban parks and green spaces were mainly located in new housing development sites in Gyeongsan City.…”

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Attitudes of Citizens towards Urban Parks and Green Spaces for Urban Sustainability: The Case of Gyeongsan City, Republic of Korea

Lee

Kim

2015

Sustainability

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Urban parks and green spaces support a wide array of species and play an important role in long-term sustainability. This study analyzed the needs and attitudes of citizens towards urban parks and green spaces in order to provide information for setting the future direction of urban sustainability to maximize quality of life. A questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze the general characteristics of respondents and their awareness of parks and spaces. First, the results indicate that the main purpose of visiting parks was relaxation and walking. Second, the type of parks visited most frequently by the respondents was pocket parks around home. Third, the main reason for going to the frequently visited parks was "close to home". Fourth, the major reason for visiting parks infrequently was "improper park management". Fifth, the desired types of urban parks were relaxation parks close to natural rivers. Sixth, citizens wanted to participate in the expansion projects of parks and green spaces through non-profit civic organizations or volunteer activities. Further research with a comparative analysis among different cities will be necessary to generalize Korean attitudes to urban parks and green spaces for urban sustainability.

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Attitudes of Citizens towards Urban Parks and Green Spaces for Urban Sustainability: The Case of Gyeongsan City, Republic of Korea

Lee

Kim

2015

Sustainability

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“…The first edition of VMap L2 does not include complete and updated information about road conditions, which makes many analyses impossible, e.g. the least-cost path analysis or network analysis (Li et al, 2010;Tenga et al, 2011, Oh et al, 2007. It is possible to design one greenway on the basis of detailed field research, but when designating several greenways to link a larger number of greenspaces, it would be difficult to conduct extensive field research, so geographic information systems should be used.…”

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Planning a greenway based on an evaluation of visual landscape attractiveness

Sarnowski

Podgórski

Brykała

2016

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…These additional data can enhance the result precision because some of the links can be considered as network impedances that delay pedestrian movement. Network impedances such as crosswalks, underpasses, and overpasses are defined as links that prevent transit of vehicles or pedestrians [30]. In normal situations, a certain time lag is added to these network impedances.…”

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Locating Automated External Defibrillators in a Complicated Urban Environment Considering a Pedestrian-Accessible Network that Focuses on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

Kwon

Kim

Lee

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IJGI

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Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are portable devices that defibrillate and diagnose sudden-cardiac-arrest patients. Therefore, AEDs are widely installed in public places such as airports, schools, sport complexes, etc., and the installation of AEDs is required by law in these places. However, despite their usefulness, AEDs are mostly installed indoors with limited coverage outdoors. Hence, this study conducts research in the placement of AEDs in outdoor locations. This study considers a complicated urban environment using a pedestrian network dataset and network barriers. We draw on the Teitz and Bart's (1968) heuristic method that was built in the location-allocation solver in ArcMap. The results of this study found that a total of 455 AEDs, including 227 pre-installed AEDs, could be placed in the study area, thus providing an additional 228 devices. Compared with 10 different installation methods that were set as experimental groups, our test results found that additional installations were able to cover 10% to 30% more actual out-of-hospital cardiac-arrest cases. The main contribution of this study is the proposal of a new method in locating AEDs in optimal areas while considering complicated urban environments. We predict that the cardiac-arrest-related mortality rate would be reduced through implementing the findings of this study.

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Assessing the spatial distribution of urban parks using GIS

Cited by 256 publications

References 5 publications

Attitudes of Citizens towards Urban Parks and Green Spaces for Urban Sustainability: The Case of Gyeongsan City, Republic of Korea

Attitudes of Citizens towards Urban Parks and Green Spaces for Urban Sustainability: The Case of Gyeongsan City, Republic of Korea

Planning a greenway based on an evaluation of visual landscape attractiveness

Locating Automated External Defibrillators in a Complicated Urban Environment Considering a Pedestrian-Accessible Network that Focuses on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

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