Evaluating the risk of accessing green spaces in COVID-19 pandemic: A model for public urban green spaces (PUGS) in London

Pan, Jiayu; Bardhan, Ronita

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127648

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“…Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a substantial increase in the number of individuals who choose to spend their leisure time outdoors engaging in outdoor recreational activities in natural spaces. During the pandemic, people are more likely to maintain their physical and mental health 2 of 18 if they spend time outdoors in natural open spaces [4,5]. Consequently, it is crucial to consider whether the quality of recreational facilities can encourage the public to stay.…”

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How Do Ecological and Recreational Features of Waterfront Space Affect Its Vitality? Developing Coupling Coordination and Enhancing Waterfront Vitality

Chen

2023

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People are increasingly concerned with natural environment quality (NEQ) as well as recreation services (RS) as the popularity of natural experiences grows. Specifically, public spaces in ecologically sensitive areas must achieve coordinated eco-recreational development. Waterfront spaces fall into this category, providing a high-quality natural environment and facilitating various recreational activities. This paper uses two waterfront spaces, Foshan New City Riverfront Park and Nanhai Qiandeng Lake Park, as sample sites, divides 22 waterfront space samples into specific research objects, introduces dual variables for RS function and NEQ, and uses mathematical and statistical methods, such as Pearson correlation analysis, coupling coordination degree calculation, and redundancy analysis, to investigate the influence of different waterfront spaces on RS function and NEQ. Finally, we propose an optimization strategy for coupling and coordinating the development of the RS function and the NEQ of waterfront space. This paper found the following: (1) RS (number of public facilities) and natural environment quality (shoreline curvature) are the dominant factors in the vitality of waterfront space; (2) optimization of RS function will restrict the development of NEQ to a certain extent; and (3) the coupling and coordination of NEQ and RS function are positively related to the vitality of waterfront space. This study can be valuable for government officials and waterfront space planners as they develop social–ecological synergy models.

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How Do Ecological and Recreational Features of Waterfront Space Affect Its Vitality? Developing Coupling Coordination and Enhancing Waterfront Vitality

Chen

2023

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“…The U.K. also reported a higher mortality rate for low-skilled people with limited ability to change their mobility during the pandemic (e.g., cannot work from home) ( Windsor-Shellard & Kaur, 2020 ). These phenomena stimulated many researchers to investigate the roles of environmental factors and human mobility in the transmission risk of COVID-19 ( Kan et al, 2021 ; Kim & Kwan, 2021a ; Huang & Kwan, 2022a ; Meng et al, 2022 ; Pan & Bardhan, 2022 ).…”

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Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data

Huang

Kwan

2023

Applied Geography

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“…Health decision-makers were aware of the beneficial influence when entire populations of many countries were summoned to implement social distancing measures for preventive purposes during the Covid-19 virus outbreak (Slater et al, 2020). Indeed, in some places, physical exercise in these areas was explicitly encouraged, even during lockdowns (Spencer et al, 2020), despite potential infection risks (Pan & Bardhan, 2022).…”

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“Passive” Ecological Gentrification Triggered by the Covid-19 Pandemic

Broitman

2022

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Urban areas can be conceptualized as large and ever-changing playgrounds in which many diverse agents (households, businesses, developers, municipalities, etc.) are active. The interactions between the playground qualities and the players’ preferences are not unidirectional. However, sometimes, external events may change the perception of the playground qualities in the player’s eyes. The recent Covid-19 pandemic and its associated precautionary measures are a clear example. During the pandemic, the value of existing urban green infrastructures has increased, as lockdowns were imposed, and distance working became widespread. The concept of “passive” ecological gentrification is developed in order to characterize this type of process. In contrast with “active” ecological gentrification, caused by purposeful intervention in the urban arena, “passive” ecological gentrification is triggered by a change of context, such as the pandemic impacts. This article focuses on the appreciation of green urban infrastructures by urbanites during the pandemic, showing that the willingness to pay to live near green and open spaces has increased in general, but with significant spatial differences. The main research questions are: (a) How does the player’s perception of the playground’s value change in times of pandemic? (b) Do these changes support the emergence of “passive” ecological gentrification? The methodology is based on the analysis of changes in property values over time as an indirect measure of a location’s appeal, looking specifically at areas near green urban infrastructures, both in the inner city and in the peripheral areas. Relatively large changes in property value over time are a possible indicator of ongoing gentrification processes: When they are observed near existing green infrastructures, and not related to redevelopment initiatives, “passive” ecological gentrification may be the result. Using detailed spatial data on land use and property prices from the Netherlands, we find evidence that supports the hypothesis of a “passive” ecological gentrification drift towards areas around urban parks and green infrastructures in general.

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Evaluating the risk of accessing green spaces in COVID-19 pandemic: A model for public urban green spaces (PUGS) in London

Cited by 12 publications

References 64 publications

How Do Ecological and Recreational Features of Waterfront Space Affect Its Vitality? Developing Coupling Coordination and Enhancing Waterfront Vitality

How Do Ecological and Recreational Features of Waterfront Space Affect Its Vitality? Developing Coupling Coordination and Enhancing Waterfront Vitality

Associations between COVID-19 risk, multiple environmental exposures, and housing conditions: A study using individual-level GPS-based real-time sensing data

“Passive” Ecological Gentrification Triggered by the Covid-19 Pandemic

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