Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in urban green space accessibility: Where to intervene?

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 234-244

  Dai, Dajun ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlanta; Gaussian based 2 step floating catchment area method; Geographic information systems; Green space; Network analysis; Spatial access

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; RUNOFF;

ATLANTA; CATCHMENT AREA; GREEN SPACES; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SPATIAL ACCESS; SPATIAL LAG MODELS; URBAN GREEN SPACES;

URBAN PLANNING;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CATCHMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; GIS; GREENSPACE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; METROPOLITAN AREA; NEIGHBORHOOD; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PUBLIC ACCESS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY; REGIONAL PLANNING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN SOCIETY;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052161704     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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