Abstract City parks have long been understood as contested spaces. But creeping privatisation and commercialisation in an era of neoliberal austerity heightened tensions between different user groups, local communities park authorities. This chapter provides in-depth case study a green space global city. Finsbury Park London opened 1869 the people’s with aim improving living conditions for work...

being very dynamic, natural and artificial land features are changing somewhat rapidly in over lifetime. it is important that such changes be inventoried accurately so that the physical and human processes at work can be more fully understood. change detection is a technique used in remote sensing to determine the changes in a particular object of study between two or more time periods. this re...

BACKGROUND Lack of physical activity (PA) is a growing public health concern. There is a growing body of literature that suggests a positive relationship may exist between the amount of local green space near one's home and PA levels. For instance, park proximity has been shown to predict PA levels amongst certain populations. However, there is little evidence for the role of relatedness toward...

The space-time prisms envisioned by Hägerstrand enclose the locations a person can reach by taking into account various time constraints. This concept has been applied on occasions to measure accessibility. It was argued that the potential of applying this approach in spatial analysis was limited by data availability and computing power. Taking advantage of technological advances, a procedure u...

In order to explore the change of Green Space in Suzhou, a central City in China's Yangtze River Delta, and reveal the spatial characteristics, ecological benefits and its impact mechanism, this study extracted a distribution map of the patches of green spaces in Suzhou using Landsat remote-sensing image data from 1998 and 2007, analyzed and assessed the changes in scale and spatial layout of t...

Natural environments, or 'green spaces', have been associated with a wide range of health benefits. Gender differences in neighbourhood effects on health have been found in a number of studies, although these have not been explored in relation to green space. We conducted the first UK-wide study of the relationship between urban green space and health, and the first such study to investigate ge...

Most people on the planet live in dense aggregations, and policy directives emphasize green areas within cities to ameliorate some of the problems of urban living. Benefits of urban green spaces range from physical and psychological health to social cohesion, ecosystem service provision and biodiversity conservation. Green space coverage differs enormously among cities, yet little is known abou...