공원의 입지와 유형이 가로활력에 미치는 영향 분석

Abstract

Urban parks play an important role in both providing fresh air and break to citizens. In addition to it, it has possibility that they enhance on-street vitality by attracting more pedestrians through their use. However, it has not been empirically identified. On the other hand, the previous literature identifying the utility of parks for street vitality still has a limit because their results are inconsistent for it. Most of studies have employed either the amount of or the distance for parks. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of the accessibility and size of parks by their type on street vitality which is explained as on-street pedestrian volume. As control variables, the study also employs the characteristics of street and land use, adopting multiple regression models. Analysis results demonstrate that the degree explaining the relationship of a park to street vitality neighboring it be more enhanced when its type are classified. The other conclusion is that the distance and size by parks' type have different impacts on attracting pedestrians.