Accessibility Analysis of Urban Green Space: The Case of Erbil City
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https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2023.231Keywords:
Erbil, accessibility, urban green area hierarchy, GIS, network analysisAbstract
Urban green areas are open spaces in urban areas that are mainly covered by vegetation. They can be public or private urban green spaces that include parks, community gardens, forests, and nature reserves. Parks are an important component of urban quality of life if they are well designed and accessible. Accessible parks contribute to physical activity among urban residents. Therefore, the objective of the study was to identify the most significant main accessibility factors that discourage the use of public urban green areas, and examine the extent to which they influence the use of green areas in residential areas of the city of Erbil. This study was conducted in 2017 and 2020 to measure the accessibility of green spaces using network analysis with GIS for Erbil city. The present study represents the first known investigation regarding the accessibility of public green spaces within the city of Erbil. The results show that for community parks, 68% of the population has access with a travel time of 5 minutes, 99% of the population has access with a travel time of 10 minutes, and 100% of the population has access with a travel time of 15 minutes. For district parks, 70% of the population had access with 5 minute drive time. With 10-minute drive time, 96% of the population had access and 100% of the population had access with 15-minute drive time. For neighborhood parks, the results show that 43% of the population had access with 5-minute walk and, 71% of the population had access with 10-minute walk. At 15-minute walk time, 80% of Erbil residents had access to neighborhood parks. Mini parks were accessed by 22% of the population with a 5 minute walk and they were accessed by 52% of the population with a 10 minute walk. With a 15 minute walk, mini parks were accessible to 70% of the population.
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Dr. Serkan Kemec is Associate Professor at University of Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Department of City and Regional Planning. He received his bachelor’s degree in City and Regional Planning (2001) from Gazi University and PhD in interdisciplinary program of Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies - from METU in 2011. He was also a visiting researcher at Technical University Delft (The Netherlands) in 2008-09, He was involved several national and international projects on natural disaster management, 3D city modeling, biodiversity and natural and urban protection area management planning. He is also responsible for teaching bachelor courses such as Numeric Techniques on Planning, Urban Planning and Design Studio, Urban Geography, Map and Surveying Techniques, GIS and RS and also master courses such as Spatial Accessibility and Spatial Data Analysis.
Salar Hassan Abdalkarim, was born in 1987 in Chamchamal-Iraq, and started to his education in Bestuni Mala Omar Primary School, then finished the Secondary School in Runaki secondary school, after that he completed his degree of (B.Sc.) for engineering in the College of Engineering Department of Architecture at Salahaddin University (2011). Then he received his M.Sc. in the Department of Landscape Architecture VYYU (2019).
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