Accessibility to urban parks for elderly residents: Perspectives from mobile phone data

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 191, Issue , 2019, Pages

  Guo, Sihui ^a,b   Song, Ci ^a   Pei, Tao ^a,b,c   Liu, Yaxi ^a,b   Ma, Ting ^a,b   Du, Yunyan ^a,b   Chen, Jie ^a   Fan, Zide ^a   Tang, Xianli ^d   Peng, Yong ^d   Wang, Yanbin ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Environmental justice; Mobile phone data; Older people; Urban park

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOUSING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RUNOFF; URBAN PLANNING;

ACCESSIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; MOBILE PHONE DATUM; OLDER PEOPLE; URBAN PARKS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

ACCESSIBILITY; AGING POPULATION; CATCHMENT; ELDERLY POPULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GREENSPACE; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; PARK DESIGN; PUBLIC SERVICE; RESIDENT POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; VULNERABILITY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 85071323034     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103642     Document Type: Article

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