Beyond urban parks: Integrating residential greenspaces to address greenspace inequality

IF 6.6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Cities Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2025.106432

Chuanbao Jing , Weiqi Zhou , Ganlin Huang , Zhiming Zhang , Jingli Yan , Yaqiong Jiang , Zehua Xu

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Abstract

The 11th Sustainable Development Goal highlights the urgent need to provide universal access to greenspace for urban residents. Both urban parks and residential greenspaces are important for residents due to similar functions, but previous studies have mostly focused on parks when addressing greenspace inequality. Here, we addressed this issue by simultaneously considering accessibility to residential greenspaces and parks (comprehensive accessibility), focusing on Beijing, China. We found that the accessibility based on both urban greenspaces (UGSs) differed greatly from that considering only urban parks or residential greenspaces. Comprehensive accessibility revealed unrecognized UGS shortages, with 10.87 % of residential areas (RAs) having limited access to both UGS types. Residential greenspaces and parks are spatially complementary to some degree, but should be more so. Among RAs with limited access to one type of greenspace, >30 % have high access to the other, but nearly one-third still have low access to the other. Given parks' public ownership and current extensive urban renewal projects, adding pocket parks in greenspace-deficient areas, especially limited access to both UGS types, is a feasible and effective solution to narrow UGS inequality.

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超越城市公园：整合住宅绿地，解决绿地不平等问题

第11项可持续发展目标强调，迫切需要为城市居民提供普遍的绿色空间。由于功能相似，城市公园和住宅绿地对居民来说都很重要，但在解决绿地不平等问题时，以前的研究大多集中在公园上。在这里，我们通过同时考虑住宅绿地和公园的可达性（综合可达性）来解决这个问题，重点是中国北京。研究发现，基于城市绿地的可达性与仅考虑城市公园或住宅绿地的可达性存在较大差异。综合可达性揭示了未被认识到的UGS短缺，10.87%的住宅区（RAs）对两种UGS的访问都有限。住宅绿地和公园在一定程度上是空间互补的，但应该更加互补。在对一类绿地可及性有限的RAs中，30%的ra对另一类绿地可及性较高，但近三分之一的ra对另一类绿地可及性较低。考虑到公园的公有制和当前广泛的城市更新项目，在绿地缺乏的地区，特别是在两种UGS类型有限的地区，增加口袋公园是缩小UGS不平等的可行有效的解决方案。

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Cities URBAN STUDIES-

CiteScore

11.20

自引率

9.00%

发文量

517

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