Using an environmental justice approach to examine the relationships between park availability and quality indicators, neighborhood disadvantage, and racial/ethnic composition

Hughey, S. Morgan; Walsemann, Katrina M.; Child, Stephanie; Powers, Alicia; Reed, Julian A.; Kaczynski, Andrew T.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.12.016

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“…Although quality has been proven to be a critical component of public parks and environmental resources but actually received limited attention (Bedimo-Rung, Mowen, & Cohen, 2005). A number of studies have identified that disparities existed in different park feature distribution across socioeconomically and racially diverse neighborhoods (Hughey, Walsemann, Child, Powers, Reed, & Kaczynski, 2016;Jenkins, Yuen, Rose, Gregory, Cotton, 2015;Vaughan et al, 2013). For example, Hughey (2016) recently has found that the park incivilities, as part of the overall park quality, increased as the neighborhood minority concentration increased.…”

Section: Park Qualitymentioning

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A comparison of park access with park need for children: A case study in Cache County, Utah

Chen

2019

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Childhood obesity is one of the nation's most serious health problems. There are growing efforts to prevent childhood obesity by improving opportunities for physical activity in their communities. The outdoor settings of the built environment, such as parks and open spaces, can offer children opportunities for physical activities, experience with nature, and social interaction, which contribute to children's physical and psychological health. However, children's physical access to parks is often inequitable. Simultaneously, the quality of parks also varies. These disparities caused the inequitable distribution of health-promoting features of built environment among disadvantaged groups who may not have access to other resources. While most previous studies focused on physical park distribution inequities, the purpose of this study is to explore park access by both park physical proximity and quality related to children's (5 to 17 years old) potential need for parks. v

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Section: Park Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A comparison of park access with park need for children: A case study in Cache County, Utah

Chen

2019

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Therefore, many public service facilities and consumer facilities (including parks) that serve for the high income groups enter the community through the process of urban gentrification. However, spatial equity research on public parks in China is still in its infancy [32][33][34][35]. The previous literature discussed the spatial equity layout of urban parks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spatial Equity Measure on Urban Ecological Space Layout Based on Accessibility of Socially Vulnerable Groups—A Case Study of Changting, China

Yuan

Wang

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The improper layout of urban public parks leads to the difference between citizens sharing or not sharing this kind of public resource, particularly in the historical districts of mountainous cities in China. The purpose of this study is to explore the spatial equity and quantitative measures of urban public parks' layouts by building a demand index of socially vulnerable groups sharing public parks based on the accessibility evaluation model. In this paper, Changting-a famous national historical and cultural city-is taken as the empirical object, then the accessibility and social equity of public parks is quantitatively measured with the aid of the field investigation method, the spatial analysis model of geographic information system (GIS) and the SPSS statistical analysis method. The results indicate that it is feasible to measure the spatial equity of urban public parks with the accessibility and demand index of socially vulnerable groups, and it can effectively characterize the rationality and social equity of urban ecological space. It shows that a degree of spatial mismatch exists between the distribution of urban public parks and that of residents, that is to say the spatial distribution of public parks is not equitable in terms of accessibility or residents' demands. Therefore, the data suggest that the spatial patterns and accessibility levels of parks in Changting County-especially the historical districts-should be further improved and perfected to achieve high levels of accessibility and equity through urban green space system planning. The paper may be used as a scientific reference for the planning and construction of ecological urban spaces. It can also provide useful decision-making guidance for urban planners in investigating, analyzing, and adjusting the distribution of public service facilities to achieve equitable outcomes, while promoting the harmonious and sustainable development of mountainous cities.

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“…Elements of the built environment, such as housing, transportation, recreational parks and green spaces, have increasingly been linked to gaps in health behaviours and outcomes. These have been recognized as essential components of creating healthier communities by promoting healthy behaviours, reducing neighbourhood stressors, and nurturing worldly possessions [2].…”

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Youth Well-Being Index in the Neighbourhood Space: Outdoor vs Indoor Space

Omar

Omar²,

Othman

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper examines both indoor and outdoor spaces that highly influence the quality index and wellbeing of youth in a marginalized community neighbourhood. The well-being of youth has been measured using quantitative data on the standard of living, physical activity, emotion, safety, youth participation in community activity, space quality and life satisfaction. A total of 530 young people aged between 15 and 25 years old were selected in two different study areas. The highest well-being score indicates the most influence space between outdoor and indoor upon youth quality lifestyle. The male score is slightly higher compared to the female score as the correlation matrix of factor analysis shows that standard of living is suggestively associated with health, physical activity, youth participation and future hope. Thus, the community and stakeholders should take more action and effort to increase youth well-being and quality index in the neighbourhood environmental space.

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Using an environmental justice approach to examine the relationships between park availability and quality indicators, neighborhood disadvantage, and racial/ethnic composition

Cited by 162 publications

References 64 publications

A comparison of park access with park need for children: A case study in Cache County, Utah

A comparison of park access with park need for children: A case study in Cache County, Utah

Spatial Equity Measure on Urban Ecological Space Layout Based on Accessibility of Socially Vulnerable Groups—A Case Study of Changting, China

Youth Well-Being Index in the Neighbourhood Space: Outdoor vs Indoor Space

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