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Researchers can analyse POS within an area of interest and “scenario test” future needs against population growth. Currently, this tool can help with planning decisions through the assessment and visualisation of the spatial distribution of public open space (including parks, nature and bushland) across the Perth and Peel Metropolitan Regions and provides the capabilities to analyse summary data on public open space provision, park amenity, park catchment and assess gaps in current provision. The AUDRC team will also further develop their existing Public Open Space (POS) Tool.

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Access via the AURIN Map is also available to the general public, allowing citizen scientists to view and download aggregated data alongside a suite of other national demographic and indicator data across many domains. The open space data collated through the Park Life project will be available to researchers through the AURIN API, Portal and Map. free-to-use) recreation spaces, playing fields, ovals, and sports surfaces. These spaces included parks, reserves, landscaped, ornamental, and manicured gardens, as well as publicly accessible (i.e. The focus of this project is on the provision and use of green public open spaces defined as: all areas of green publicly accessible open spaces designed for, or able to cater for, a range of active and passive leisure or recreational activities. The term “public open space” encompasses a variety of different outdoor spaces (land areas) within the urban environment that have been reserved and designated as readily and freely accessible for community use. Led by Dr Paula Hooper, the team at AUDRC will work with key stakeholders in the research community to curate the national dataset and conduct a national survey of park use. Through our High Impact Projects program, AURIN is partnering with the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC) at the University of Western Australia to develop a new high-quality, nationally standardised dataset of public open space. Additionally, current planning standards in Australia, lack of knowledge of urban residents’ preferences for, and use of, parks and few research studies exploring the benefits of parks identify the spaces respondents actually use. While several publicly available open and green space datasets exist, these differ in scale definitions, resulting in a difficult-to-use, piecemeal representation that cannot be suitably analysed. With high levels of population growth in urban areas, researchers and decision-makers are in critical need of a high-quality national-scale open space dataset. Research shows that living near a public open space increases wellbeing and mental health, improves air quality and biodiversity, and benefits the economy by creating property uplift.

Public open spaces are vital for Australian communities.

This will enable Australia’s research community to address complex urban and regional planning issues in Australia and find solutions that create positive impacts for our towns, cities and communities. AURIN has funded new critical eInfrastructure for open space research, generating new, nationally consistent, data and improving existing analysis and visualisation tools.