Socio-demographic variation in motives for visiting urban green spaces in a large Chinese city

Habitat International

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-120

  Shan, Xi Zhang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age; Gender; Guangzhou; Management; Marital status; On site interview

Indexed keywords

AGE; DECISION MAKING; GENDER RELATIONS; GREENSPACE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 84882268577     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.07.012     Document Type: Article

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