The effect of resident-perceived neighborhood boundary on the equity of public parks distribution: Using GIS

Chun Man Cho, Yun Soo Choi

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Abstract

Because of the ready availability of various data at residence level, census tracts have been the spatial units most commonly selected. In some cases, municipally defined service districts have also been selected, and they are, in fact, only the aggregates of several neighboring census tracts. The problem encountered in the current study is that Census-based Neighborhoods such as census tracts and the aggregations of census tracts frequently do not correspond with commonly recognized neighborhoods experienced informally in daily life. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Resident-perceived Neighborhood Boundaries (as the alternative unit of analysis to conventionally-used Census-based Neighborhood Units) on the accessibility to public parks based on equity consideration. The result indicates that when Resident-perceived Neighborhood Boundaries are adopted, there is no significant change the equity of accessibility to public park distribution among neighborhoods of different social strata.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb and Wireless Geographical Information Systems - 5th International Workshop, W2GIS 2005, Proceedings
Pages296-307
Number of pages12
StatePublished - 2006
Event5th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2005 - Lausanne, Switzerland
Duration: 15 Dec 200516 Dec 2005

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3833 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th International Workshop on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2005
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityLausanne
Period15/12/0516/12/05

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