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  title info:
    title: Measuring the accessibility and equity of public parks
    sub title: a case study using GIS
  title info:
    title: Measuring the accessibility and equity of public parks: a case study using geographic information system
  name:
    name part: Nicholls, Sarah.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xv, 266 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The concepts of accessibility and equity are useful means of measuring the extent and fairness of service provided by the distribution of public facilities such as urban packs. While numerous studies have been conducted into either the accessibility or the equity of various service distributions, it is argued here that they have to date been limited by the lack of a spatial perspective that explicitly links these two concepts together. In this study, therefore, a spatial analysis of the accessibility and equity of the distribution of public park facilities in Bryan-college Station, Texas, is conducted utilizing a geographic information system (GIS). Using such an approach, it is possible to identify not just who the disadvantaged are, in terms of the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of those residents having low levels of accessibility, but also where they are such that distributional inequities can be corrected. The results indicate that, although levels of accessibility to park facilities are higher in College Station than in Bryan, the reverse is true of the degree of equity. Moreover, the use of four alternative measures of access within each city produces significant variations in levels of accessibility depending upon how this concept is measured. This in turn impacts upon the degree of (in)equity indicated. The choice of accessibility measure can thus be a crucial determinant of both the accessibility and the equity results. As this study demonstrates, GIS offers a powerful means of visualizing and measuring the levels of accessibility and equity provided by public facilities such as urban packs. Moreover, this kind of technology also offers great potential for further, more advanced analyses incorporating more detailed information about the quantity and quality of services provided, as well as about levels of access to them. In addition, GIS may be used to help locate new park facilities so as to increase levels of both accessibility and equity …
  note: by Sarah Nicholls.
  note: "Major subject: Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1999.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-265).
  subject:
    topic: Major recreation, park and tourism sciences
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-N51
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    location:
      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-N51
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 000912
    record change date: 20220103134733.0
    record identifier: in00001559911