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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"neighborhood parks"”.
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Valuing open space : land economics and neighborhood parks
… and critique the effectiveness of existing neighborhoods in meeting the needs of residents, and to develop proposals for new neighborhoods. The research uses hedonic regression analysis to quantify the market value of specific attributes of housing quality, location and neighborhood at sites …
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Park Amenities and Crime: Do Neighborhood Parks Contribute to Crime?
Municipal parks are often assumed to be associated with crime, but if parks do foster crime, the specific relationships are unclear. Park data were collected for a national and a city sample, recognizing four typical amenities in parks: sports, family, ornamental, and undeveloped. These four …
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Designing for Teen Open Space Needs: A Study of Adult and Teen Perceptions in Roanoke, Virginia
… in public open spaces, with an emphasis on neighborhood parks. Utilizing a neighborhood park in Roanoke, Virginia, the study developed findings that can influence the design of public open spaces, with the goals of providing social and physical benefits of neighborhood parks for teenagers. …
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Multi-stage and multi-objective allocation procedures of urban parks using location decision support system (UPLDSS)
… around residential areas such as playgrounds or neighborhood parks influences people's daily lives implicitly or explicitly. In spite of such contributions, however, the literature directly related to the provision of parks is quite rare. Moreover, planning around size standards for park …
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Link park access with obesity risk reduction : case study of Austin, Texas
… options are severely limited in certain neighborhoods. These so-called “transit deserts” prevent many residents from relying on public transportation to get to and from home and work. But is access to public parks any better? As cities continue to reinvest in their public parks, residents …
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Peace through parks : the challenge of overcoming social frictions and ecological tensions in the development of parks in post-conflict Bogotá
In the development of parks in Bogota, legacies of conflict pull the environmental and post-conflict equity-building agendas apart. This thesis interrogates the relationship between post-conflict, equity-building and the ecology of public parks in order to propose a framework for the development of …
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Constrained spaces of prenatal care: South Asian immigrant women in New York City
… South Asian women. Everyday places such as neighborhood parks, temples emerged as important spaces with physical as well as social therapeutic qualities. ‘Social therapeutic networks’, operating at multiple geographical scales were important in shaping women’s place-based experiences of …