Locating legacies of environmental racism in park-going : a study of urban nature, race, and spatial interactions
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Environmental justice research has highlighted how contemporary patterns of provision and accessibility of urban parks reflect a long legacy of environmental racism and injustice. However, the limited availability of large-scale data on trips to parks has precluded examining whether the legacy of environmental racism in park allocation manifests in park use behavior. This three-paper dissertation leverages SafeGraph cell-phone mobility data of trips to parks in America's ten most populous cities as of 2019 to understand whether patterns of park-going replicate the racial inequality in the provision of nature in urban areas. Paper 1 relies upon mixed effects regression models of park trips to assess explanations provided by leisure scholars for racial differences in park use. Paper 2 uses spatial regression analysis to test Jane Jacobs' theory that social diversity in the residential neighborhood of a park is critical for attracting high rates of foot-traffic to the park. Paper 3 leverages an Infomap network clustering algorithm to quantify the level of socio-spatial homophily in park-going and the tendency for whiter and affluent neighborhoods to use different types of parks than residents in neighborhoods of color. Collectively, the papers suggest that park use is less geographically constrained and less racially segregated for park-goers in neighborhoods of color than prior research has presumed.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Stephens, Francine, (Data analyst) |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Asad, Asad L |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Degree committee member | Asad, Asad L |
| Degree committee member | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Francine Stephens. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2024. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xg593mk8428 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Francine Stephens
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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