Research On The Fairness Of Urban Green Space Allocation Based On A Behavioral Accessibility Model And With The Xigang District Of Dalian City As An Example

The public service facilities have an important role to ensure that a city’s green spaces play a key role in the regulation and improvement of city ecology. In addition, they also have the important responsibility of over-seeing green space construction with social fairness in mind. Social fairness refers to city residents having the opportunity to enjoy fair and equal urban green spaces. That is to say, people with different social and economic backgrounds should have equal opportunities to enjoy the resources of urban green space. However, current unbalanced economic development has led to a social stratum differentiation which is becoming increasingly serious. Where residential space differentiation is obvious, the results are that green space cannot be enjoyed by everyone; the supply of urban green space cannot meet the growing demand of city residents; and the problem of the unfairness of urban green space allocation is becoming a progressively prominent issue.The background of this study is the differentiation of the social stratum in urban areas, which is becoming a progressively serious matter as residential space differentiation is affected by unbalanced economic development The resulting fewer green spaces available to be enjoyed by everyone has created prominent social unfairness. The Xigang District of Dalian City was selected as the research area for this study. The social fairness was analyzed with a community scale as the basis. We combined social scientific methods with a GIS method using a behavior accessibility model, from the perspective of fairness of urban green space allocation. This was based on social geography, geographical informational science, management science and many other related discipline theories. The research results demonstrated that most urban green space exhibited an unbalanced space allotment, which did not match the population distribution; there were differences found in the accessibility of the population with different attributes and opportunities to use and enjoy the urban green spaces, mainly due to:1.The dual social and spatial attributes of the residents and the generated serious class differentiation were the internal causes; 2.The residential space differentiation and the pursuit of economic and real estate development was the direct cause; and 3. The unreasonable planning, in regards to government policy did not give consideration to efficiency and fairness, was also an important factor.