'The park a tree built': Evaluating how a park development project impacted where people play

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 293-299

  King, Diane K ^a   Litt, Jill ^b   Hale, James ^c   Burniece, Katherine M ^d   Ross, Colleen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental design; Exercise; Public health; Recreation; Refugees; Urban renewal

Indexed keywords

GREENSPACE; PARK MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; REFUGEE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN RENEWAL;

EID: 84940163597     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.02.011     Document Type: Article

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