Analysis of urban green space accessibility and distribution inequity in the City of Chicago

Urban green space (UGS) has positive impacts on people’s physical and mental health. Equal access to UGS for all people, regardless of their individual characteristics, is key to the achievement of better public health outcomes. Existing studies have focused largely on inequity in spatial UGS accessibility distribution but failed to uncover the disparities of UGS accessibility among different racial/ethnic and income groups as well as inequity...