Abstract
Adequate number of parks and amount of land allocated to those parks, to provide equal access for all city residences, are important factors in achieving cities to spatial equity. The purpose of this study was to analyze availability, distribution and accessibility of urban parks in the city of Ilam, Iran. In this research, descriptive statistics and buffering techniques in GIS were used. Our findings show that in Ilam, the indexes of park coverage and per capita park area are 2.13% and 1.91 m2 respectively, that are much lower than those of Iranian standards. Only slightly over a third of Ilam residents live within 200 m of a park. Parks are disproportionately agglomerated in the northern half of the city. Whilst 30.4% of the city's surface area, where 27.3% of the city's population reside, is not covered by park service areas, some other parts benefit from 13 park service areas. The index of per capita access to parks for 34.8% of Ilam population that reside in 32.7% of Ilam surface area, is less than 1.5 m2. The city in general suffers from a shortage of parks, but this, in particular, is severe in the city center and in the southern parts, highlighting the need for allocation of more lands for park provision.
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