Urban green space, uneven development and accessibility: a case of Dalian's Xigang District

Yang, Jun; Li, Chuang; Li, Yuechen; Xi, Jianhao; Ge, Quansheng; Li, Xueming

doi:10.1007/s11769-015-0781-y

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“…For quantity, studies in Chinese cities show more cases of inequity-high-SES people have higher quantities of green space than low-SES [75,76,78,81,93,95,98,99,102,104]-than equity [12,82] or mixed findings [45,74]. Studies in other Asian cities such as Sheikhupura, Pakistan [69], Tehran, Iran [71,84], and Hamadan, Iran [46] also found inequitable results for green space quantity.…”

Section: Results: Do Inequities In the Global South Vary Based On Geomentioning

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Access to Urban Green Space in Cities of the Global South: A Systematic Literature Review

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This review examines disparities in access to urban green space (UGS) based on socioeconomic status (SES) and race-ethnicity in Global South cities. It was motivated by documented human health and ecosystem services benefits of UGS in Global South countries and UGS planning barriers in rapidly urbanizing cities. Additionally, another review of Global North UGS studies uncovered that high-SES and White people have access to a higher quantity of higher quality UGSs than low-SES and racial-ethnic minority people but that no clear differences exist regarding who lives closer to UGS. Thus, we conducted a systematic review to uncover (1) whether UGS inequities in Global North cities are evident in Global South cities and (2) whether inequities in the Global South vary between continents. Through the PRISMA approach and five inclusion criteria, we identified 46 peer-reviewed articles that measured SES or racial-ethnic disparities in access to UGS in Global South cities. We found inequities for UGS quantity (high-SES people are advantaged in 85% of cases) and UGS proximity (74% of cases). Inequities were less consistent for UGS quality (65% of cases). We also found that UGS inequities were consistent across African, Asian, and Latin American cities. These findings suggest that Global South cities experience similar inequities in UGS quantity and quality as Global North cities, but that the former also face inequities in UGS proximity.

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Section: Results: Do Inequities In the Global South Vary Based On Geomentioning

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Access to Urban Green Space in Cities of the Global South: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…This finding is consistent with the conclusions of other studies. For instance, Wu et al (2018) [41] and Yang et al (2015) [42] showed that the peripheries of Chinese cities are mostly low-income residential areas and have less access to parks and green spaces. The nearest neighbor method reveals a tendency to the uneven spatial distribution of refugee parks and the results can be used to provide policy suggestions to the municipal government in order to optimize the layout of urban refugee parks.…”

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Evaluating Methodology for the Service Extent of Refugee Parks in Changchun, China

Xiu

Wei

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Refugee parks are general parks that can serve as emergency shelters in cities. The core issue of refugee parks lies in their service extent they provided. Globally, the service extent of refugee parks is determined by the Euclidean or actual road network distance methods. The former lacks measurement accuracy, whereas the latter lacks the consideration of human dimension and proximity. Hence, we propose the nearest neighbor method, which considers not only the locations of refugee parks and sub-districts, but also road networks and census data. Using this method, we evaluated the service extent of refugee parks in Changchun, northern China. We compared our results with the Euclidean distance method. Results showed that the nearest neighbor method effectively accounted for the effect of road network resistance and results aligned with the refuge needs of residents. Differences in both methods were mainly affected by the size of the parks and local road network and population densities. The Euclidean approach determines the service extent based on a unified service radius, thus producing greater errors. The nearest neighbor method can reveal the spatial imbalance of refugee parks, as well as the mismatch between the park size and population distribution. Furthermore, the nearest neighbor method implements policies of spatial optimization of urban refugee parks. As a general method, it should be suited to different types of disasters.

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“…On the social scale, on the one hand, the urbanization dominated by spatial production has changed the social and cultural landscape and improved people's living standards. On the other hand, it also causes the widening income gap between urban and rural regions, and frequent occurrence of social stratification and spatial injustice [51]. On the natural scale, people pay more attention to the living environment and air quality, and the increasing demands for leisure, vacation and recuperation, which force the urbanization to strengthen the environmental protection and ecological restoration [49,52].…”

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Spatial production or sustainable development? An empirical research on the urbanization of less-developed regions based on the case of Hexi Corridor in China

Zhang

Jiang

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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The relationships between spatial production, urbanization and sustainable development are becoming a focus of the international academic cycle. Urbanization dominated by spatial production driven by capital and power often produces and enlarges uneven development, which leads to multiple eco-environmental problems. Thus, the key to development lies in whether the pattern of urbanization is in harmony with the ecological environment. However, previous researches mainly concentrate on spatial production in developed countries or regions. The urbanization and sustainable development of less-developed regions, with complex and fragile ecological environments, are often overlooked. It is a new idea to explain the relationships and interactions between spatial production, urbanization and sustainable development based on less-developed regions by the theory of spatial production. The paper chooses the Hexi Corridor as a typical case, puts forward a conceptual framework and explores the process of spatial production from 2000 to 2017. The results reveal that urbanization in the Hexi Corridor is a multidimensional socio-spatial process: power and capital gave birth to a higher urbanization and accelerated the process of urbanization, however, the urban-rural gap between regions has not narrowed accordingly. Driven by comprehensive interests, local governments often take some extreme measures to forcefully promote the urbanization process, thereby violating the goals and requirements of sustainable development. At present, there is an urgent need to coordinate the relationship between urban and rural regions on different scales and transform the urbanization model from traditional spatial production to a new-type of urbanization with people-oriented and sustainable development.

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Urban green space, uneven development and accessibility: a case of Dalian's Xigang District

Cited by 26 publications

References 17 publications

Access to Urban Green Space in Cities of the Global South: A Systematic Literature Review

Access to Urban Green Space in Cities of the Global South: A Systematic Literature Review

Evaluating Methodology for the Service Extent of Refugee Parks in Changchun, China

Spatial production or sustainable development? An empirical research on the urbanization of less-developed regions based on the case of Hexi Corridor in China

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