{"title":"How do urban green space attributes affect visitation and satisfaction? An empirical study based on multisource data","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2024.105543","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban green spaces (UGSs) are major settings of human–nature interaction and important to public well-being. Visitation and satisfaction are indicators that reflect the utilization degree of and feedback regarding UGSs. The focus of this study is to analyze the visitation and satisfaction characteristics of different types of UGSs, analyze the dominant factors affecting these indicators, and rank their importance to provide strategies for improving management. Here, 50 typical UGSs in Shanghai are selected. All-subset regression, hierarchical partitioning analysis and other methods are comprehensively used to explore the influencing factors. The results are as follows: 1) Comprehensive parks have the highest visitation rates, whereas community parks have the lowest visitation rates but the highest satisfaction rates. 2) UGS size has the greatest influence on visitation, followed by connectivity, building shape index, and edge density, with contributions of 69.35 %, 16.40 %, 8.50 %, and 5.75 %, respectively. 3) Transportation facility density and edge density have the greatest influences on satisfaction, with contributions of 51.49 % and 48.51 %, respectively. In this study, the applicability of using multisource data to analyze UGS attributes and their factors affecting visitation and satisfaction are demonstrated. Targeted strategies for constructing UGSs will help authorities plan and manage UGSs effectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cities","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275124007571","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"URBAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Urban green spaces (UGSs) are major settings of human–nature interaction and important to public well-being. Visitation and satisfaction are indicators that reflect the utilization degree of and feedback regarding UGSs. The focus of this study is to analyze the visitation and satisfaction characteristics of different types of UGSs, analyze the dominant factors affecting these indicators, and rank their importance to provide strategies for improving management. Here, 50 typical UGSs in Shanghai are selected. All-subset regression, hierarchical partitioning analysis and other methods are comprehensively used to explore the influencing factors. The results are as follows: 1) Comprehensive parks have the highest visitation rates, whereas community parks have the lowest visitation rates but the highest satisfaction rates. 2) UGS size has the greatest influence on visitation, followed by connectivity, building shape index, and edge density, with contributions of 69.35 %, 16.40 %, 8.50 %, and 5.75 %, respectively. 3) Transportation facility density and edge density have the greatest influences on satisfaction, with contributions of 51.49 % and 48.51 %, respectively. In this study, the applicability of using multisource data to analyze UGS attributes and their factors affecting visitation and satisfaction are demonstrated. Targeted strategies for constructing UGSs will help authorities plan and manage UGSs effectively.
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Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.