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8. Public open space, physical activity, urban design and public health: Concepts, methods and research agenda

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Suzanne Mavoa, Billie Giles-Corti, Andrew T. Kaczynski, Neville Owen, Takemi Sugiyama, Hannah Badland, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Karen Villanueva, Koohsari, Mohammad Javad, Mavoa, Suzanne, Villanueva, Karen, Sugiyama, Takemi, Badland, Hannah, Kaczynski, Andrew T, Owen, Neville, and Giles-Corti, Billie

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medicine.medical_specialty, Health (social science), Parks, Recreational, urban form, Geography, Planning and Development, walking, Residence Characteristics, Active living, medicine, Humans, Sociology, Exercise, Neighbourhood (mathematics), Recreation, Built environment, business.industry, Public health, parks, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Urban design, Public relations, built environment, Travel behavior, Environment Design, Public open space, Public Health, business, neighbourhood
Abstract

Public open spaces such as parks and green spaces are key built environment elements within neighbourhoods for encouraging a variety of physical activity behaviours. Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning number of active living research studies examining the influence of public open space on physical activity. However, the evidence shows mixed associations between different aspects of public open space (e.g., proximity, size, quality) and physical activity. These inconsistencies hinder the development of specific evidence-based guidelines for urban designers and policy-makers for (re)designing public open space to encourage physical activity. This paper aims to move this research agenda forward, by identifying key conceptual and methodological issues that may contribute to inconsistencies in research examining relations between public open space and physical activity. Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Published
2015

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