@article{ref1,
title="Nature, race, and parks: past research and future directions for geographic research",
journal="Progress in human geography",
year="2009",
author="Byrne, J. and Wolch, J.",
volume="33",
number="6",
pages="743-765",
abstract="Geographic research on parks has been wide-ranging but has seldom examined how and why people use parks, leaving these questions to leisure science, which privileges socio-demographic variables over urban socio-spatial explanations (eg, historical, political-economic, and location factors). This article examines recent geographic perspectives on park use, drawing upon environmental justice, cultural landscape, and political ecology paradigms to redirect our attention from park users to a more critical appreciation of the historical, socio-ecological, and political-economic processes that operate through, and in turn shape, park spaces and park-going behaviors. We challenge partial, user-orientated approaches and suggest new directions for geographic research on parks.<p />",
language="",
issn="0309-1325",
doi="10.1177/0309132509103156",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132509103156"
}