Gobster, P.H., 1998, Urban parks as green walls or green magnets? Interracial relations in neighborhood boundary parks, in: Landscape and Urban Planning, 41, 1
- Author : Gobster, P.H.
- Year : 1998
- Journal/Series : Landscape and Urban Planning
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 1
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 41
- Pages : 43-55
- Abstract in English : Solcki and Welch (1995) describe how parks that lie between racially different neighbourhoods can become “green walls” or barriers to use and appreciation. A case study of Chicago’s Warren Park provides a counterexample of a boundary park that acts more like a “green magnet” than a green wall, and addresses the potential role of such parks as active agents in improving interracial relations. This paper is in part a critique of the Solocki and Welch green wall thesis and in part what the Author hopes will be seen as a constructive expansion of the discussion on the social uses and values of park spaces in diverse urban communities.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: urban parks, neighbourhoods, boundary landscape, societal significance, interracial relations. UTILITY: lecturers/teachers, academic research, students of universities of professional education. (See also in this database: Solecki, W.D. & J.M. Welch, 1994).