Author(s): Iraegui Cuentas, Edorta
Date: 2017
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/34145
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Subject(s): Accessibility; Equity; Geographical information systems; Hierarchical green spaces; Local Indicators of Spatial; Association; Network analysis; Socio-economic variation; Spatial statistics; Urban gree
Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies
Accessibility to different services in cities has been studied as form of analysing equity, especially in urban settings. Green spaces are one of these services; they have known benefits on the wellbeing of the urban residents. This work intends to determine if the variation in accessibility to urban green spaces is affected by the distribution of socio-economic variables such as income, and how these affect the green equity in a city. Green spaces have been categorised into different functional levels based on their size and accessibility and equity has been analysed, taking into consideration income, density, migrant populations and age-based variables. The analysis conducted involved a network-based service area analysis as well as spatial and statistical analysis using ArcGIS, GeoDa and R. The case study selected was the city of Barcelona (Spain). The results of the analysis reject the hypothesis of inequity in accessibility at functional levels based on the variables studied although some spatial associations exist.
