Abstract
Within the context of territorial justice, geographical research has been focusing increasingly on service delivery (more specifically urban parks) in an effort to determine who benefits and why. Parks benefit people by providing a sustainable community and a higher quality of life. Apartheid planning left a legacy of inequality in park delivery, and even existing South African park literature dates back to the apartheid era, providing only limited scope, without any thorough analysis of community neighbourhood park (CNP) proximity to residents. Consequently, this paper provides a spatial analytical overview of the distribution of CNPs in the City of Cape Town (CoCT) by mapping CNP availability per socio-economic area, and determining CNP proximity alone and with certain capacity constraints. The most important literature pertaining to the application of geographic information systems to determine park proximity is also outlined. Results indicate that environmental injustice exists even today; although all income groups suffer in certain areas with poor CNP proximity, it remains the poorest in low-income suburbs where some people walk or travel further than the maximum acceptable distance of 15 minutes to a CNP. Finally, suggestions are made to the City Parks Department to improve CNP delivery and distribution in the CoCT.
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