Demand for parks and perceived accessibility as key determinants of urban park use behavior

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 44, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Zhang, Jingyuan ^a,b   Tan, Puay Yok ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Park use behavior; Park use demand; Perceived accessibility; Structural equation modeling; Theory of planned behavior

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MODELING; PARK DESIGN; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85070505541     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126420     Document Type: Article

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