Exploring the distribution of park availability, features, and quality across Kansas City, Missouri by income and race/ethnicity: An environmental justice investigation

KB Vaughan, AT Kaczynski… - Annals of behavioral …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… was to examine disparities in park availability, features, and overall park quality across …
census tracts in Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO). We hypothesized that park availability would not …

Park environments and youth physical activity: exploring the influence of proximity and features across Kansas City, Missouri.

GM Besenyi - 2011 - krex.k-state.edu
… the relationship between availability of thirteen specific park facilities in 52 parks with the
body mass index of 108 children aged two to seventeen. Their findings indicated that …

Planning for health: a community-based spatial analysis of park availability and chronic disease across the lifespan

GM Besenyi, AT Kaczynski, SAW Stanis, RD Bergstrom… - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
… The purpose of this study was to explore the spatial relationship between park availability
and chronic health conditions (CHCs) across age groups in Kansas City, MO. Multinomial …

Attitudes about perceived park safety among residents in low-income and high minority Kansas City, Missouri, neighborhoods

L Groshong, SA Wilhelm Stanis… - Environment and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
parks as venues for PA, evidence is mounting that a relative lack of park facility availability
… higher, levels of park availability but more quality concerns and fewer park features, such as …

A GIS analysis of the relationship between criminal offenses and parks in Kansas City, Kansas

N DeMotto, CP Davies - Cartography and Geographic Information …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
… or absence of social benefit from urban parks in the Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) area, GIS …
parks provide positive social benefits and, specifically, their role in Kansas City, Kansas. A …

Measuring locational equity and accessibility of neighborhood parks in Kansas City, Missouri

EL Besler - 2011 - krex.k-state.edu
… just on 26 neighborhood parks within Kansas City, MO … parks acquired/built prior to 1999
were included in this study. This unit of analysis was chosen primarily because this type of park

Environmental justice and physical activity: examining disparities in access to parks in Kansas City, Missouri

KB Vaughan - 2011 - krex.k-state.edu
… disparities in park availability, features, and quality across socioeconomically and racially
diverse census tracts (CTs) in Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO). Methods: All parks in KCMO …

Measuring park accessibility for pedestrian in Manhattan, Kansas

A Alahmary - 2019 - krex.k-state.edu
… budget and income), abilities (transport mode availability and physical condition), and needs
(… miles west of Kansas City. The city has two known establishments; Kansas State University …

ParkIndex: Development of a standardized metric of park access for research and planning

AT Kaczynski, J Schipperijn, JA Hipp, GM Besenyi… - Preventive …, 2016 - Elsevier
… the Kansas City Parks and Physical Activity Project, which was approved by the IRB at Kansas
… Also, although we incorporated comprehensive park availability and audit data, other park

[HTML][HTML] Are park proximity and park features related to park use and park-based physical activity among adults? Variations by multiple socio-demographic …

AT Kaczynski, GM Besenyi, SAW Stanis… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
park use and park-based PA and 1) three measures of park proximity, and 2) the availability
of 14 park … This study took place in 2010 and was part of the Kansas City Parks and Physical …