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Parks and People: An Environmental Justice Inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland
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This article examines the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue. In addition to established methods for measuring distribution of and access to parks, we employ a novel park service area approach that uses Thiessen polygons and dasymetric reapportioning of census data to measure potential park congestion as an equity outcome measure. We find that a higher proportion of African Americans have access to parks within walking distance, defined as 400 meters or less, than whites, but whites have access to more acreage of parks within walking distance than blacks. A needs-based assessment shows that areas with the highest need have the best access to parks but also have access to less acreage of parks compared to low-need areas. Park service areas that are predominantly black have higher park congestion than areas that are predominantly white, although differences are less apparent at the city level than at the metropolitan level. Following Iris Young and others, we argue that conceptions of justice must move beyond distributive justice and address the social and institutional mechanisms that generate inequities. For Baltimore, we examine how segregation ordinances, racial covenants, improvement associations, the Home Owners Loan Corporation, and the Parks and Recreation Board created separate black spaces historically underserved with parks. These mechanisms ultimately fueled middle-class flight and suburbanization and black inheritance of…
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“In New York, the creation of official SMIAs in 1992 has resulted in the further siting and clustering of environmental hazards in predominantly low-income communities of color.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Boone, C. G., Buckley, G. L., Grove, J. M., & Sister, C.
- Affiliations
- Arizona State University (US)
- Ohio University (US)
- US Forest Service (US)
- Venue
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-09-04
- Volume
- 99
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 767-787
- ISSN
- 0004-5608 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8306
- OpenAlex
- W1997617500
- Semantic Scholar
- ef583ed3235b3144474283accd83d738c66dde51
- Cited by
- 828
- References
- 151
- Citations by year
- 2026: 61 · 2025: 60 · 2024: 73 · 2023: 81 · 2022: 86 · 2021: 68 · 2020: 63 · 2019: 64 · 2018: 51 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 35 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 30
- FWCI
- 68.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Green Space and Health
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
- Keywords
- environmental justice, park accessibility, urban parks, Baltimore, racial segregation, Voronoi tessellation, African Americans, walking distance, suburbanization, racist covenants, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, Iris Marion Young, distributive justice
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