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Measuring the accessibility and equity of public parks: a case study using GIS
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Geographic information systems (GIS) can provide leisure service agencies with numerous opportunities to enhance the planning and management of their facilities as discussed by the authors, and demonstrates one such application, to the measurement of levels of accessibility and distributional equity offered by a system of public parks.Abstract:
Geographic information systems (GIS) can provide leisure service agencies with numerous opportunities to enhance the planning and management of their facilities. This paper demonstrates one such application, to the measurement of levels of accessibility and distributional equity offered by a system of public parks. The methods proposed are relatively simple; nevertheless, they do offer substantial improvements upon those previously utilized by leisure service providers. They facilitate identification of poorly served areas and populations, and suggest where new facilities might best be sited so as to maximize access and equity. These methods are illustrated by a case study of the park system in Bryan, Texas. Many other applications of GIS to leisure service provision are available, several of which are briefly discussed. Together, they could enable agencies to function more effectively and, ultimately, to provide better levels of service to the public.read more
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Parks and people: an environmental justice inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Parks and Park Funding in Los Angeles: An Equity-Mapping Analysis
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Nature, race, and parks: past research and future directions for geographic research
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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.
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A complex landscape of inequity in access to urban parks: A literature review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an analytical literature review focusing on three groups of parameters: park proximity, park acreage, and park quality, and found that low socioeconomic and ethnic minority people have access to fewer acres of parks, fewer acres per person, and to parks with lower quality, maintenance, and safety than more privileged people.
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Assessing Spatial Equity: An Evaluation of Measures of Accessibility to Public Playgrounds:
Emily Talen,Luc Anselin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the importance of methodology in assessing whether or not, or to what degree the distribution of urban public services is equitable, by means of an empirical case study of the spatial distribution of playgrounds.
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Visualizing Fairness: Equity Maps for Planners
TL;DR: A prototype method with which planners can readily generate and evaluate various “equity maps” of resource distribution is presented, which exploits the visualization capabilities of GIS, which allow interactive exploration of the spatial relationships between public facilities and socioeconomic characteristics.
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The social equity of urban service distribution: an exploration of park access in pueblo, colorado, and macon, georgia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the equitability of park distribution by comparing the spatial clustering of park access scores with the spatial clusterering of selected socioeconomic variables and found that the spatial pattern of low access for Macon corresponds in certain areas to spatial c...
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