Journal article
Land use diversity and park use in New York City
Preventive medicine reports, v 22, 101321
Jun 2021
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Abstract
Neighborhood parks and mixed-use land development are both understood to be important independent contributors to physical activity levels. It has been hypothesized that mixed-use land development could increase park use as a result of mixed-use neighborhoods being consistently activated throughout the day, but the results of previous research on this question have been inconsistent and the mediational role of neighborhood activation has not been tested. This study leverages data from Google Places Popular Times and the National Establishment Time Series to directly test the mediational role of the daily temporal distribution of neighborhood activation, to construct a novel measure of commercial activity diversity, and to help disentangle built-environment density from commercial diversity. Park use data was measured from 10,004 systematic observations of 20 neighborhood parks in New York City in the spring and summer of 2017. The hypothesis that commercial activity diversity is positively associated with park use was not supported in any models. However, a positive relationship between built-environment density and park use was found, which may help to explain prior inconsistent findings.
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- Title
- Land use diversity and park use in New York City
- Creators
- Dustin Fry - Drexel UniversityJ. Aaron Hipp - North Carolina State University College of Natural Sciences, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, 5112 Jordan Hall, 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAClaudia Alberico - North Carolina State University College of Natural Sciences, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, 5112 Jordan Hall, 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAJing-Huei Huang - North Carolina State University College of Natural Sciences, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, 5112 Jordan Hall, 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAGina S. Lovasi - Drexel UniversityMyron F. Floyd - North Carolina State University College of Natural Sciences, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, 5112 Jordan Hall, 2800 Faucette Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
- Publication Details
- Preventive medicine reports, v 22, 101321
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000659961900039
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85101097749
- Other Identifier
- 991019168534204721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health