Jennifer Wolch

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the Anglo-American literature on urban green space, especially parks, and compared efforts to green US and Chinese cities and found that the distribution of such space often disproportionately benefits predominantly white and more affluent communities.

TL;DR: An equity-mapping analysis of access to park space enjoyed by children and youth in Los Angeles (LA), and by residents according to their race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status finds that low-income and concentrated poverty areas as well as neighborhoods dominated by Latinos, African Americans, and Asian-Pacific Islanders have dramatically lower levels of accessing park resources than White-dominated areas of the city.

TL;DR: The authors examines recent geographic perspectives on park use, drawing upon environmental justice, cultural landscape and political ecology paradigms to redirect our attention from park users to a more critical appreciation of the historical, socio-ecological, and political-economic processes that operate through, and in turn shape, park spaces and park-going behaviors.

TL;DR: It is suggested that several features of the built environment associated with smart growth planning may promote important forms of physical activity that are associated with physical activity or body mass.