MethodsX 13 (2024) 102856
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The Australian Park Life project: Development of a nationally standardised spatial layer and public participatory GIS for greenspace in Australian capital cities Paula Hooper∗, Nicole Edwards The Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC), School of Design, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6059, Western Australia, Australia
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Method name: Standardised national-scale spatial layer of public open green space for Australian cities and a public participatory GIS to measure use of green spaces Keywords: Greenspace Public open greenspace Parks PPGIS GIS Public open space POS Geographic information systems Urban planning Green space Spatial data Park use
a b s t r a c t This paper introduces the ‘Australian Park Life Project’ and describes a protocol to standardise the capture and collation of public open greenspace spatial data across Australian cities. This method will progress greenspace research allowing for unique coherent national analyses and comparative research across Australia. We also outline the development of the Park Life public participatory geographic information system (PPGIS) to spatially explore what, and how, public open greenspaces are being used by Australian communities. The combination of community crowdsourced spatial data providing location-specific information on the green public open spaces used, in combination with the national spatial layer of greenspace allows for unique analyses exploring the role of greenspace provision and design on use and represents a transformative strategy in shaping public open space policy and strategy. • A spatial layer of public open greenspace was created for the eight Australian State and Territory capital cities using a standardised data capture and collection method from local government planning schemes and land use data, and listings of managed and demarcated parks and reserves. • The Park Life public participatory geographic information system (PPGIS) was built to capture spatially referenced information on the use of greenspaces - specifically what spaces are used, and how they are used.
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Environmental Science Urban planning, health promotion Standardised national-scale spatial layer of public open green space for Australian cities and a public participatory GIS to measure use of green spaces. N/A N/A
Corresponding author. E-mail address: p.hooper@uwa.edu.au (P. Hooper).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2024.102856 Received 5 February 2024; Accepted 8 July 2024 Available online 25 July 2024 2215-0161/© 2024 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)