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Record W4411609990 · doi:10.1177/00139165251342974

Park Features, Neighborhood Environment, and Time Factors Affect Park Visitor Volume: A Meta-Analysis

2025· article· en· W4411609990 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironment and Behavior · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicUrban Green Space and Health
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVisitor patternAffect (linguistics)GeographyUrban parkEnvironmental resource managementPsychologyEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental planningComputer scienceCommunication

Abstract

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Urban parks are essential for sustainable urban planning, but their usage patterns remain complex. This meta-analysis of 30 studies identifies factors influencing park visitor volume, focusing on park attributes, neighborhood environments, and temporal aspects. Random-effect models reveal positive associations with park size, diverse facilities, organized activities, trails, maintenance, and quality. Neighborhood population density and points of interest also increase visitation, while socio-economically disadvantaged areas see reduced use. Temporal factors, such as time of day and season, significantly shape patterns. However, features like water, greenness, crime safety, and transit accessibility show mixed or insignificant effects. Regional differences highlight stronger impacts of population density and transit accessibility in the U.S. compared to Asian studies. These findings provide actionable insights for urban planners and landscape architects to design parks that cater to diverse needs, boost visitation, and maximize their community benefits.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.059
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it