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., 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

This quasi-experimental study examined whether walking in environments perceived as more natural improves psychological well-being, and whether benefits differ across socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups. Among 475 U.S. university students, highly natural walks were associated with greater post-walk wellbeing. For Pell Grant recipients, wellbeing disparities narrowed as perceived naturalness increased, suggesting some equigenic potential, but this pattern was not consistent across other measures of socioeconomic status or race/ethnicity. The findings show that naturalness can support wellbeing, but its benefits are not necessarily distributed equally.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (Since October 2021)

Note: Names of the lab members are in bold

2026

  • 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