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http://dx.doi.org/10.9715/KILA.2015.43.6.098

The Effect of Neighborhood Environmental Perception on Park Use for Health Improvement - The Case of Suseong-gu in Daegu City -  

Lee, Woo-Sung (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Daegu University)
Jung, Sung-Gwan (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Kyungpook National University)
Park, Young-Eun (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture / v.43, no.6, 2015 , pp. 98-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of neighborhood environmental perception on park use for health. The study area is focused on neighborhood parks in Suseong-gu, Daegu city. The analysis results are based on questionnaires of 303 respondents. According to the results, park use for health improvement was significantly associated with the perceptions of accessibility to a marketplace, availability of public transit, accessibility to the park, enough sidewalks, number of crosswalks, and athletic population. The probability of park use increased by 2.326 times as the satisfaction of accessibility to the park increased. Also, greater athletic population, fewer crosswalks, and more sidewalks lead to increase of park use by 1.701, 1.617, and 1.642 times, respectively. Therefore, it is important to increase the available neighborhood parks around residences and to develop exercise programs that people can use continuously in order to vitalize park use for health improvement. Also, it is necessary to improve the convenience of walking such as development of pedestrian streets or malls between residences and parks.
Keywords
Neighborhood Park; Neighborhood Environment; Physical Activity; Logistic Regression Analysis; Bivariate Analysis;
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