Availability and accessibility of urban green spaces: the case of the urban zone of Queretaro Metropolitan Area, Mexico

Gutiérrez, Michelle Farfán; Noguez, Andrew Boni; Flamenco-Sandoval, Alejandro; Serrano, Ayesa Martínez; Flores‐Torres, Arnoldo; Ramírez, Ana Karen Godínez; Alcántara, Camilo

doi:10.1080/17445647.2021.1927867

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“…Table 2 illustrates the total of 26 articles [ 2 , 6 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 ] is included in the review on the study of the correlation between spatial characteristics of urban green spaces and the subjective well-being of older adults. Among them, 16 articles belong to research articles (RA) forming the highest percentage (61.54%), while the rest are articles (23.08%, N = 6), systematic reviews (11.53%, N = 3), or original scholarship (3.85%, N = 1).…”

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Urban Green Space and Subjective Well-Being of Older People: A Systematic Literature Review

Nordin

Aini

2022

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A growing number of articles have identified and reported the benefits and importance of urban green spaces for improving human well-being, but there is a significant knowledge gap regarding the impact of urban green spaces on the subjective well-being of older adults. The literature search (August 2015–August 2022) was derived from two major scientific databases, Google Scholar, and Web of Science. As a result, 2558 articles were found, 1527 of which were retrieved from WOS and the rest from Google Scholar. Bibliometric methods and VOSviewer software were used to screen and organize the articles in the relevant fields. Finally, 65 articles met the review criteria. The included studies aim to capture the benefits of various features of urban green spaces in meeting or enhancing the subjective well-being needs of older adults. The results of our review further support the existence of a strong link between older adults’ subjective well-being and various features of urban green spaces, providing new insights for future in-depth reexamination and policy development. Furthermore, the relationship between urban green spaces and older adults’ subjective well-being depends not only on the urban green spaces themselves but also on the characteristics of the older adult population that uses them.

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Urban Green Space and Subjective Well-Being of Older People: A Systematic Literature Review

Nordin

Aini

2022

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“…Studies on the availability of and equitable access to UGSs are rare in the Indian context. The study conducted by Gutiérrez et al [11] in a metropolitan area of Mexico used a similar methodology to map green space distribution using ArcGIS and measured its accessibility using network analysis. Their results are consistent with our study: a low quantity of green spaces and their uneven distribution result in the inaccessibility of these spaces for a larger proportion of the city's population.…”

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“…The service area analysis tool in the Network Analysis extension of ArcGIS had been used to evaluate the accessibility of the green spaces in this study. The service area is the region that encompasses the accessible road network around a facility within a distance or travel time threshold, which is also called impedance [11][12][13]. In this study, the service area is mapped for the entrance points of public parks by using the accessibility thresholds mentioned in Table 1 for the different park categories.…”

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The Socio-Spatial Distribution and Equity of Access to Urban Parks: A Case Study of Bengaluru, India

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Mayavel

2024

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Given the effect of urbanization on land use and the allocation and implementation of urban green spaces, this paper attempts to analyze the distribution and accessibility of public parks in India’s Bengaluru city (previously known as Bangalore). Availability, accessibility, and utilization—the key measures of Urban Green Spaces (UGS)—are mostly used in health research and policy and are important components of Planetary Health Equity in the context of studying UGSs and health. A geo-spatial method was used for mapping the park’s distribution and measuring its accessibility, using road network data. To understand equitable access to the parks, four socio-economic parameters—population density, the percentage of the population below 6 years of age, the proxy wealth index, and scheduled caste population—were correlated with the parks’ accessibility. This spatial distribution revealed that 19 of 198 wards did not have a single park and that 36 wards only had one park. About 25–29% of wards did not have accessibility to neighborhood-level and community-level parks within a 400–800 m distance. These parks must be accessible within a walking distance of 400–800 m but were found to most likely be inaccessible on the periphery of the city where the population density is low and the children population is high, in comparison to the central part of the city. Similarly, parks were found to be inaccessible in the eastern part of the city where the scheduled caste population is high and also found to be inaccessible for the low-income neighborhoods residing in the western part and southern periphery of the city, indicating the uneven distribution of and inequitable access to public parks. Our study proposes a reshaping of both neighborhood parks and community parks in an attempt to look beyond biodiversity, through the planetary health equity approach, by noting that, while biodiversity indirectly has a positive effect on health, public parks should not only be considered as advancing environmental sustainability and climate resilience, but also as improving the health and wellbeing of the population. Affirmative action in terms of the availability of public parks with adequate area requirements and essential services at a neighborhood scale is required to redress the inequity of access; in addition, the accessibility of parks must be considered important during urban planning.

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“…Since then, studies have focused on two main aspects: 1) the spatial distribution characteristics of the cultural and entertainment industry in cities and 2) the evolution of spatial distribution and the factors that affect it (location distribution and location selection) (He et al, 2019;He et al, 2021;Ryder, 2004). Great attention to this topic was paid by Chinese authors (Gutiérrez et al, 2021;Kim et al, 2021). Indeed, research on cultural and entertainment facilities is relatively modest (He et al, 2021).…”

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Spatial patterns of entertainment mobility in cities

Todorić

Yamashkin

Vuksanović-Macura

2022

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Cultural and entertainment activities have become an important part of the life of the city's population. Spaces of entertainment are being developed in almost all parts of the city-in the inner city, in larger neighborhoods both in the city center and on the outskirts, near the centers of labor, shopping areas (e.g., attractive streets or shopping malls), or recreation areas. Hence the need to research the spatial patterns of entertainment mobility in the city. Studies to date have found that people spatially adjust their consumer activities (including entertainment) to their primary functions (housing, going to work, school, and college). This paper examines mobility for the entertainment of various socio-economic groups (employees, students, unemployed, and pensioners). Attention is also focused on examining the neighborhood's entertainment mobility-near the place of residence. The paper uses data from the survey on daily population mobility in the territory covered by the General Plan of Belgrade (GPB), Serbia, conducted in 6,357 households. The main part of the research is the spatial analysis of the patterns of residents? mobility for entertainment. Spatial analyses is based on mapping of entertainment movements, and then interpreting the obtained cartographic representations. Based on that, regularities are recognized, i.e., spatial patterns of entertainment in the city.

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Availability and accessibility of urban green spaces: the case of the urban zone of Queretaro Metropolitan Area, Mexico

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Urban Green Space and Subjective Well-Being of Older People: A Systematic Literature Review

Urban Green Space and Subjective Well-Being of Older People: A Systematic Literature Review

The Socio-Spatial Distribution and Equity of Access to Urban Parks: A Case Study of Bengaluru, India

Spatial patterns of entertainment mobility in cities

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