Investigating the implications of using alternative GIS-based techniques to measure accessibility to green space

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 326-343

  Higgs, Gary ^a   Fry, Richard ^a   Langford, Mitchel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; GIS; Green space; Network distances; Representation; Spatial data

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; DATA SET; GIS; GREENSPACE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL DATA;

CARDIFF [WALES]; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84859468273     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b37130     Document Type: Article

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