Study Finds Unequal Access To High-quality Parks In Philadelphia

This study from the University of Delaware shows that in the City of Philadelphia, parks of high quality are located in areas that tend to have more affluent, white and college educated residents. The parks that scored the lowest tend to be in areas where the residents are historically marginalized. The study used a machine learning algorithm to analyze 285 parks from over 100,000 park reviews gathered from Google Maps and corroborated the reviews with the physical characteristics of those parks using satellite and aerial imagery, as well as data from police reports and the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department.