Impact of Urban Parks on Environment, Society, and Economy

Urban park

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Impact on environmental perspective.........................................................................................3
The impacts from a social perspective........................................................................................4
Economic perspective on influence of Urban Park ....................................................................1
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Urban park is also known as municipal park or public park . It is a park in cities and located in
the incorporated places for offering recreation and green spaces for resident and visitors. The
maintenance, design and operations is done by various government agencies at the local level
that is contracted out of park conservancy.
Benefits: Urban parks are very essential for sustainability and liveable in towns and cities. It
includes various different components such as woodland, square plantings, street trees, green
roofs, private gardens, sports complexities and allotment gardens. It has a positive impact on
parks based on physical and mental health of people. It is based on role played by urban parks to
strengthen relations, social ties and cohesion. Urban parks are making economic contribution
towards having higher real estate prices, with leisure visits outside working environment for
promoting of well beings and health of visitors that is making higher contributions towards the
local economy.
Challenges: There are many challenges associated with urban parks that is mapping of green
spaces and measuring of culture and recreational activities. There is also lack of cost benefit
analysis tools that is sometimes difficult to value. Many times local authorities are having
opposition for development and maintenance of parks and green paces as it affects the space for
housing. Continued financial pressures are also affecting the overall quality of green spaces as itr
is important to draw funds across local authority budgets that can reflect better spreading of
benefits from investing in parks. It may also lead to future and present health benefits for people
across society.
Present report is based on making a analysis of the impact of the way urban parks is having
economic impact. Further, there is analysis of the consequence from environment perspective
and its impact from social perspective in context of Urban parks.
MAIN BODY
Impact on environmental perspective
Pollution: there is negative impact on overall external environment as urban trees, shrubs, lawns
are affecting the surface temperatures in city. These elements are very important for the purpose
of improving the overall air quality of urban areas. It is very important for balancing of the urban
forest density specially in areas that are with low green space density and need both city wide