Environmental injustice also emerges from studies of why parks may go unused. Scholars have generally attributed park (non)use, to socio-cultural and socio-spatial determinants. One reason is that a given park space may be perceived as unsafe or “belonging” to another group in the community work involving focus groups with low-income Latinos in Los Angeles illustrates how ethno-racial formations, histories of segregated park systems, and land-use regulation can vcircumscribe park access and use.