This article reviews the growing environmental justice literature documenting access to
urban parks across socioeconomic and ethnic groups. The extensive public health and …

Over the past two decades, there has been an efflorescence of park and greenspace
research. This trend may reflect substantial increases in urban populations globally and …

The built environment is found to relate to running behaviors. However, the impacts of the
street environment on running were less addressed due to the lack of running data in large …

Safety is an important dimension of access to green space. When parks are perceived as
unsafe, people are unlikely to derive the health and community benefits from them. In this …

We studied the accessibility of public urban green spaces in the context of rapid land
transformation within the urban periphery. By using Shanghai, China as a case study, we …

Background Obesity rates are recognized to be at epidemic levels throughout much of the
world, posing significant threats to both the health and financial security of many nations …

Background Little national evidence is available on spatial disparities in distributions of
parks and green spaces in the USA. Purpose This study examines ecological associations …

Neighborhood social and built environments have been recognized as important contexts in
which health is shaped. The authors reviewed the extent to which these neighborhood …

ObjectiveThrough a literature review, we investigated the geographic information systems
(GIS) methods used to define the food environment and the types of spatial measurements …

Gentrification is a growing concern in many urban areas, due to the potential for
displacement of lower-income and other vulnerable populations. This process can be …