Urban Equity of Park Use in Peri-Urban Areas during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025
Core contribution: This article examines park use equity during COVID-19 through a comparative urban and peri-urban framework. By combining objective accessibility and quality measures with residents' perceptions, demands, and changing visitation, it shows why peri-urban vulnerability cannot be captured by conventional park access metrics alone.
Highlights
- Compares the urban center, west peri-urban, and south peri-urban communities to reveal equity patterns hidden by citywide averages.
- Combines objective access and quality measures with residents' perceived access, quality concerns, planning demands, and pandemic-era park use.
- Finds a clear mismatch in southern peri-urban areas: residents perceive access more positively than conventional spatial metrics suggest.
- Shows that west-side communities face stronger park-quality deficits and basic amenity needs, which COVID-19 further magnified.
核心贡献: 本文以盐湖城为案例，在城市与近郊比较框架下研究 COVID-19 疫情期间的公园使用公平性。研究将客观可达性与质量评价、居民主观感知、改善需求和公园访问变化结合起来，说明传统公园可达性指标难以完整揭示近郊社区的脆弱性。
核心亮点
- 比较城市中心、西部近郊和南部近郊社区，揭示城市平均值会掩盖的公园公平差异。
- 把客观可达性和质量评价，与居民的可达性感知、质量担忧、规划需求以及疫情期间的公园使用变化结合起来。
- 发现南部近郊存在明显的感知错位：居民对公园可达性的评价比传统空间指标所显示的更积极。
- 指出西部社区面临更突出的公园质量短板和基础设施需求，而 COVID-19 进一步放大了这种脆弱性。
