Publications

Highlights

Park, K., Devisscher, T., Chen, J., Zhang, D., Chen, M., & Khanal, A. (2026). Identifying Social Experience Typologies across Urban Parks from User-Generated Reviews. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 125, 129678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129678 [download]

This study uses nearly 50,000 Google Reviews from 154 Vancouver parks and fine-tuned RoBERTa models to examine reported social experiences across the city. We identify four park typologies and find that high social-review volume does not necessarily correspond to positive experiences. Park size and amenity diversity were more consistent predictors of typology than neighbourhood demographics. The study demonstrates how user-generated content and transformer models can support scalable, citywide assessment of park social experience.

Jazi, E., van den Bosch, M., Triguero-Mas, M., Meitner, M., Thomson, A., Chen, J., & Park, K. (2026). Marginalized Community Members’ Perceptions of Nature and Mental Health: Focus Group Findings on Differential Benefits. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 115: 103220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103220 [download]

  • Marginalized community members report cognitive, spiritual, and emotional improvements in natural space.
  • Built-natural environments preferred, due to safety and convenience concerns in highly natural areas.
  • Many marginalized community members report that individual factors moderate wellbeing benefits more than identity. Perceptions of and connections to natural space shape these benefits.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (Since October 2021)

Note: Names of the lab members are in bold

2026

  • Jazi, E., van den Bosch, M., Triguero-Mas, M., Meitner, M., Thomson, A., Chen, J., & Park, K. (2026). Marginalized Community Members’ Perceptions of Nature and Mental Health: Focus Group Findings on Differential Benefits. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 115: 103220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.103220 [download]
  • Park, K., Devisscher, T., Chen, J., Zhang, D., Chen, M., & Khanal, A. (2026). Identifying Social Experience Typologies across Urban Parks from User-Generated Reviews. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 125, 129678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129678 [download]
  • Chen, M. & Park, K. (2026). Monitoring human behaviors in natural environments using sensor and vision technologies: A scoping review of analytical approaches and applications. Environmental Development 60: 101546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2026.101546
  • Jazi, E., Dietsch, A. M., van den Bosch, M., Triguero-Mas, M., Meitner, M. J., Atkisson, C., Thomson, A., & Park, K. (2026). Perceived naturalness and wellbeing: Differential benefits for marginalized and privileged groups. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 120, 129448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129448

2025

  • Zhang, X., Chen, M., & Huang, Y. (2025). Who gets to use the street? Evaluate the utilization and inclusiveness using crowdsourced videos and vision-language models. Sustainable Cities and Society, 134, 106906. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106906
  • Wang, Y., Park, K., & Mau, K. H. (2025). Access for whom? Inequality and inequity in multi-modal accessibility to large parks. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 113, 129124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.129124 [download]
  • Park, K., & Khanal, A. (2025). Park Features, Neighborhood Environment, and Time Factors Affect Park Visitor Volume: A Meta-Analysis. Environment and Behavior, 57(3-4), 296–325. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165251342974 [download]
  • Chen, M., Liu, Y., Liu, F., Chadha, T., Park, K. (2025). Measuring pedestrian-level street greenery visibility through space syntax and crowdsourced imagery: A case study in London, UK. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 105, 128725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128725 [download]
  • Yuan, Fan & Chen, M. (2025) A systematic review of measurement tools and senior engagement in urban nature: Health benefits and behavioral patterns analysis. Health & Place, 91, 103410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103410 [download]
  • Sun, P., Chen, M., & Chen, J. (2025). The “Blue” Habitat of Urban & Suburban Areas and approaches for its biodiversity research: A scoping review. Journal of Environmental Management, 373, 123567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123567 [download]

2024

2023

  • Park, K., Garcia, I., & Kim, K. (2023). Who visited parks and trails more or less during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how? A mixed-methods study, Landscape Research Record 11: 157-171. [download]
  • Park, K., Singleton, P.A., Brewer, S. & Zuban, J. (2023). Pedestrians and the built environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changing relationships by the pandemic phases in Salt Lake County, UT, USA. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2677(4): 448-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221083606 [download]
  • Park, K., Nasr-Isfahani, H., Novack, V., Sheen, J., Hadayeghi, H., Song, Z., & Christensen, K. (2023). Impacts of disability on daily travel behaviour: A systematic review. Transport Reviews 43(2): 178-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2022.2060371 [The editors’ choice] [download] 
  • Park, K., Farb, A., & George, B. (in press). Effectiveness of visual communication and collaboration tools for online GIS teaching: Using Padlet and Conceptboard. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2065669 [download]

2022

  • Alawadi, Khaled., Khanal, A., Mouselly, Abdallah & Aletaywi, Abrar Bashar. (2022). “Planning in the age of pandemics: Renewing suburban design”. Sustainable Cities and Society, 87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2022.104261 [download]
  • Zhang, Y., Li, X., Jiang, Q., Chen, M., & Liu, L. (2022). Quantify the spatial association between the distribution of catering business and urban spaces in London using catering POI data and image segmentation. Atmosphere, 13(12), 2128. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13122128 [download]
  • Ren, B., Park, K., Shrestha, A., Yang, J., McHale, M., Bai, W., Wang, G. (2022). Impact of Human Disturbances on the Spatial Heterogeneity of Landscape Fragmentation in Qilian Mountain National Park, China, Land, 11: 2087. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11112087 [download]
  • Wang, L., Ding, J., Chen, M., Sun, Y., Tang, X., & Ge, M. (2022). Exploring tourists’ multilevel spatial cognition of historical town based on multi-source data—A case study of Feng Jing ancient town in Shanghai. Buildings, 12(11), 1833. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12111833 [download]
  • Alawadi, K., Khanal, A., & Sohdy Abdelfattah, R. (2022). Typological index of alleyways: mapping the pattern of a forgotten urban form element. Journal of Urban Design, Pages 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2105199 [download]
  • Shen, X., Chen, M., Ge, M., & Padua, M. G. (2022). Examining the conceptual model of potential urban development patch (PUDP), VOCs, and food culture in urban ecology: A case in Chengdu, China. Atmosphere, 13(9), 1369. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13091369 [download]
  • Chen, M., Zhang, Y.*, Yang, Y., Fang, Z. (2022). Application of data visualization in urban design based on Grasshopper. Landscape Architecture 陈铭泽,张洋,杨玉冰,方智果. 基于Grasshopper平台的数据可视化在城市设计中的研究与实践[J].园林, 2022, 39(05):44-51. [download]
  • Park, K., Sanchez, T., & Zuban, J. (2022). Evaluating scholarly productivity and impacts of landscape architecture faculty using citation analysis. Landscape Journal 41(1): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.41.1.1 [download]
  • Park, K., Chamberlain, B., Song, Z., Nasr-Isfahani, H., Sheen, J., Larsen, T., Novack, V., Licon, C., & Christensen, K. (2022). A double jeopardy: COVID-19 impacts on people with disabilities’ travel behavior and community living. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 156: 24-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.12.008 [download]
  • Hinners, S., Rose, J., Choi, D., & Park, K. (2022). Geographically Evaluating Urban-Wildland Juxtapositions across 36 Urban Areas in the United States. Geography and Sustainability 3(2): 139-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2022.05.004 [download]   

2021