The spatial accessibility of attractive parks in Chicago and a proposed planning support system to evaluate the accessibility of points of interest

Huang, Tianchen

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Title

The spatial accessibility of attractive parks in Chicago and a proposed planning support system to evaluate the accessibility of points of interest

Author(s)

Huang, Tianchen

Issue Date

2021-12-09

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Deal, Brian

Committee Member(s)

• O'Shea, Conor E
• Chen, Si

Department of Study

Landscape Architecture

Discipline

Landscape Architecture

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.L.A.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

• Urban Park
• Planning Supporting System
• Cumulative Accessibility

Abstract

Urban parks play an essential role in meeting the ecological, social, and recreational requirements of residents. Access to urban parks reflects people’s quality of life. The present research focused on the cumulative accessibility by walking and driving to attractive urban parks for different population groups in Chicago. The present study used the ratings and the number of reviews on Google Maps to evaluate each parks’ attractiveness. The results present the cumulative accessibility scores using gravity, linear, and kernel models. In addition, the spatial distribution of the accessibility to parks for population groups of different races and levels of income are shown at the 90 m X 90 m land cell scale and at the community level. Highly attractive parks that people walk to received a high accessibility score. However, parks with high accessibility scores that people drive to were along the major highways. The present study also determined that the Black and high-income populations have a higher accessibility score to parks than other population groups. Moreover, a planning supporting system is proposed that uses rating data that can be gathered from apps such as Google Maps and Yelp to evaluate all types of Points of Interest (POIs) in parks.

Graduation Semester

2021-12

Type of Resource

Thesis

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