The impact of urban greenways on residential concerns: Findings from the Atlanta BeltLine Trail

Weber, Sarah; Boley, B. Bynum; Palardy, Nathan P.; Gaither, Cassandra Johnson

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.06.009

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“…In addition, greenways have not only captured attention due to connecting urban ecosystems [7] but, from a social perspective, are also recognized as places for recreation and as areas that maintain the scenic quality of the landscapes in urban areas [8]. In other words, greenways provide benefits to individuals in the form of scenic views and access to a variety of experiences related to health, recreation, alternative transportation, and tourism at the community level (e.g., [3,5,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]). Many studies have examined human interactions with the natural environment, especially greenways, due to the benefits that such interactions offer [15][16][17][18], and thus, "an affective state is an important indicator of the nature and significance of a person's ongoing interaction with an environment" [19].…”

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The Relationship between User Perception and Preference of Greenway Trail Characteristics in Urban Areas

Lee

Jeong

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Sustainability

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Greenways provide multiple benefits for trail users’ individual experiences based on users’ background environment and their perceptions of characteristics such as the trail width, vegetation, water, and facilities. Although greenway trail characteristics are important factors that affect users’ preferences, only a few studies have examined individuals’ experiences of greenways based on their perceptions and preferences. The purpose of this study is to examine how greenway trails can be designed to improve users’ experiences in relation to their perceptions and preferences by considering trail characteristics. We examine the relationship between greenway trail characteristics and likability using t-tests as well as correlation and multiple regression analyses. In the current study, virtual tour surveys of greenway users were conducted, with two urban greenway trails as the study sites: Town Lake Trail in Austin, Texas, and Buffalo Bayou Trail in Houston, Texas. Perceptions of all eight greenway trail characteristics, except for background buildings, were significantly different between the trails, and a significant difference in likability was found for five characteristics (the presence of water, trail facilities, trail width, adjacent automobile traffic, and built structures on the trail). In addition, the results of the correlation and multiple regression analyses revealed that the presence of water, amount of vegetation, automobile traffic, and built structures were correlated with likability. These findings suggest that designing appropriate types of greenway trails can help increase users’ likeability ratings of urban greenways. This study contributes to the enhancement of trail environments by providing strategies for practitioners to effectively design and manage greenways.

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The Relationship between User Perception and Preference of Greenway Trail Characteristics in Urban Areas

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Jeong

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“…Although greenways are usually recognized for their ecological, environmental, social, recreational, esthetic, educational, and economic benefit benefits, conflicting perceptions of the impacts of greenways usually exist because landowners and nearby residents may oppose greenway planning because of the interference by tourists or the additional regulations. Therefore, there is a growing scholarly interest in assessing the perceptions of greenways of different social groups, such as landowners [20], communities [6,7], recreational users and travelers [21][22][23][24][25], and planning authorities [26]. Although these groups usually overlap with each other, their perspectives on the conditions, benefits, and impacts of greenways can be further investigated as the user, public, and professional perceptions.…”

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“…As responses to urbanization, greenways are driven by basic human needs [3] and require an in-depth understanding of the user patterns and preferences. However, greenways could also result in policy conflicts between the mainstream greenway policy and local initiatives [4] and between public interest and private ownership [5,6]. The inconsistency of policy implementation and the opposition of local stakeholders have been serious challenges to greenway projects [3].…”

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User, Public, and Professional Perceptions of the Greenways in the Pearl River Delta, China

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The perception of greenways has been intensively investigated to understand the attitudes of stakeholders and to study the preferences of greenway users. In the Pearl River Delta, there has been a long-term debate on the form and function of greenways in campaign-style development, but few studies have focused on the public perception of greenways. Through both onsite and online investigations, this study obtained first-hand data about the user perceptions of greenways in selected case studies and developed an overall understanding of the public perception of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) greenways. Moreover, to examine the academic debate, we further distributed questionnaires to groups that had professional educational backgrounds related to greenway planning. The results showed that, in contrast with the academic debate, the user, public and professional perceptions were positive toward PRD greenways. Although it has been commonly recognized that bikeways compose the primary form of PRD greenways, the results suggested that the public has multiple needs for greenways, in which the primary demands are recreation and transportation. The investigation also identified many issues in greenway practices regarding the accessibility of greenway spaces, the coherence of nonmotorized routes, and the landscape characteristics of the greenways. Finally, this study suggests that more effort should be placed on the everyday demands of greenways, including accessible recreational resources and safe, comfortable, and coherent nonmotorized routes.

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“…Urban forests and green spaces are critical for social, environmental and economic benefits, along with green infrastructure. They are increasingly considered to be an important part of a city's image [1][2][3]. Gobster and Westphal [2] investigated how people perceived and used greenways for recreation and experiences of relaxation and their results accounted for the importance of greenways by using six human dimensions in Chicago, USA.…”

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“…Gobster and Westphal [2] investigated how people perceived and used greenways for recreation and experiences of relaxation and their results accounted for the importance of greenways by using six human dimensions in Chicago, USA. Weber et al [3] stated that urban greenways would have impacts on the residents in various perspectives, including property values, social and recreation spaces and so on. They surveyed 381 adjacent residents in BeltLine, Atlanta, USA to investigate the factors and preferences for planning urban greenways.…”

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Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

Liu

Chuang

2018

Forests

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This study explores preferences for a set of attributes that characterize the recreational value of Calligraphy Greenway, the most notable greenbelt in Taichung City, Taiwan. As an urban green space, the Calligraphy Greenway has its own recreational attributes and visitors' preferences. This study uses the choice experiment method to determine visitors' preference levels for five major attributes to improve the recreational quality. On average, each visitor visited there 9.15 times in the past year and spent 2.37 h per visit. Of the five recreational attributes, satisfaction with recreational activity opportunities had the highest score and satisfaction with cultural landscape resources had the lowest score. The importance is ranked in the order of recreational service quality, total recreational cost, environmental landscape resources, cultural landscape resources and recreational activity opportunities. Considering difference of groups, female visitors were more concerned with cost and activities but male visitors were more concerned with service quality and natural/cultural landscape resources. Local visitors were more concerned with cost and activities but non-local visitors were more concerned with environmental/cultural landscape resources. Both were concerned with service quality. Based on the results, this study makes the following recommendations: cultural landscape resources and quality of recreational services and facilities should be improved and more complete interpretative educational guidance should be provided to increase visitors' willingness to visit. Additionally, it is suggested to set up various districts to cater for preferences of different visitor groups.

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The impact of urban greenways on residential concerns: Findings from the Atlanta BeltLine Trail

Cited by 49 publications

References 41 publications

The Relationship between User Perception and Preference of Greenway Trail Characteristics in Urban Areas

The Relationship between User Perception and Preference of Greenway Trail Characteristics in Urban Areas

User, Public, and Professional Perceptions of the Greenways in the Pearl River Delta, China

Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

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