Modeling spatial accessibility to parks: a national study
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Modeling spatial accessibility to parks: a national study
BACKGROUND Parks provide ideal open spaces for leisure-time physical activity and important venues to promote physical activity. The spatial configuration of parks, the number of parks and their spatial distribution across neighborhood areas or local regions, represents the basic park access potential for their residential populations. A new measure of spatial access to parks, population-weight...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072x-10-31