Based in Baltimore, Maryland, this project employs methods from urban forestry and community-engaged research to gain a deeper understanding of a city park’s physical quality and the meaning of park quality to neighborhood residents. In the summer of 2018, we were asked by residents living in the Franklin Square community to survey the trees in their neighborhood park and create an updated park map. Following the completion of our survey, we organized an event in the park for local elementary and middle school students and collected student reflections on the park before and after the event. Despite indications that the physical quality of the park is deteriorating through the loss of trees and other park features, our qualitative analysis of themes from student reflections and historical narratives suggests that not only park features but also experience, memory, and history shape park quality. By examining green space quality using a bottom-up approach, which includes the voices of community members and archival documents, we advance and question studies of urban green space quality that have largely relied on quantitative metrics.

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富兰克林广场公园发生了什么？人、树木和环境正义

该项目位于马里兰州巴尔的摩，采用城市林业和社区参与研究的方法，深入了解城市公园的物理质量以及公园质量对社区居民的意义。2018 年夏天，富兰克林广场社区的居民要求我们调查附近公园的树木并制作更新的公园地图。调查结束后，我们在公园内组织了当地中小学生的活动，收集活动前后学生对公园的感想。尽管有迹象表明公园的物理质量因树木和其他公园特色的消失而恶化，我们对来自学生反思和历史叙述的主题的定性分析表明，不仅公园的特色，还有体验、记忆和历史塑造了公园的质量。通过使用自下而上的方法检查绿地质量，其中包括社区成员的声音和档案文件，我们推进和质疑在很大程度上依赖于定量指标的城市绿地质量研究。