Urban parks are a valuable public resource that not only contribute to the improvement of the urban biological environment and the quality of life of city dwellers, but also play a significant role in the long-term sustainability of urban development [1, 2]. The number, size, and spatial layout of parks and green spaces directly affect the quality of the urban environment and the living standards of residents [3].
Numerous studies have demonstrated that cities with more green space can offer greater health advantages and enhance the standard of living for their citizens [4, 5]. Examples include minimizing the urban heat island effect, lowering blood pressure, cortisol levels, and anxiety, and boosting emotions and self-esteem [6–9]. Additionally, green spaces are linked to social advantages such as creating place attachment and intergroup trust [10,11]. By 2030, the urban population will be close to 5 billion, and the metropolitan region would cover 1.5 million square kilometers, according to the United Nations. But as urbanization quickly advances, it also brings population increase and land expansion [12, 13], which causes an uneven spatial distribution of land resources. Urban green equity has received a lot of attention over the last 30 years and is currently a contentious social topic [14]. The connotation of urban park space equity can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. In a broad sense, equity highlights the fact that urban residents not only have equitable access to public green resources, but also to the development of public green spaces, which is mostly studied in the subject of politics [15]. The allocation of public green resources like urban parks in terms of space is the narrower definition of public green space equality that receives more attention in this study.
Researchers both domestically and overseas have looked into how fair urban parks are. Xiong Huijin [16] used the technique of network analysis to analyze the accessibility of parks and green spaces in Nanchang. Shi Tuo [17] used the method of combining network analysis and buffer zone to analyze the accessibility of urban parks in Shenyang.Kong Jian Yu brought scene availability into the utilitarian assessment of metropolitan green space, however the openness computation embraces the expense distance strategy, which makes it challenging to analyze the openness of green space between urban areas on a level plane [18, 19]; Jim Yuan takes Lorentz bend and Gini coefficient as pointers to quantify the consistency of metropolitan green space dispersion [20]. In addition, many scholars use landscape ecology theories to quantitatively analyze the spatial distribution patterns of green space, and use various statistical methods to measure the spatial connectivity and evenness of the space[21–23].
At present, the equity of urban parks is evaluated by various factors such as the number of parks, the quality of parks, and the accessibility of parks [24]. Spatial accessibility refers to how easy it is for residents to overcome a specific resistance to reach another service facility, and it is an important criterion to measure the reasonable spatial layout of urban service facilities, which has been widely used in studies [25–27]. There are not many studies on the quality of urban parks to evaluate their fairness [28].Scholars have previously looked into the various aspects of a park's design and appearance from different perspectives to evaluate the quality of urban park, such as its landscape pattern, species level, and community level[29,30]. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the park's quality from a perspective of landscape pattern.
According to this perspective, this study takes the Shinan District of Qingdao as its research area, analyzes from the three dimensions of urban park supply quantity, landscape quality, and accessibility measurement, and thoroughly employs the principal component analysis method, two-step mobile search method, coupling and coordination analysis, and other methods to evaluate the fairness of the spatial pattern of urban park, in order to provide reference for the optimal allocation and planning layout of the spatial pattern of urban park green space.