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Urban Residents’ Preferred Walking Street Setting and Environmental Factors: The Case of Chengdu City

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1

School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

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School of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China

3

School of Architecture, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China

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Buildings 2023, 13(5), 1199; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051199 (registering DOI)

Received: 31 March 2023
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Revised: 24 April 2023
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Accepted: 25 April 2023
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Published: 30 April 2023

Abstract

To date, most studies on building environments and walking behavior have utilized top-down approaches (e.g., big data or social media data) yet lack bottom-up approaches to verify their findings. Therefore, this study divided urban streets into three main settings (community streets, waterfront paths, and urban greenways) and collected data from a sample of 411 urban residents in Chengdu via an online questionnaire to examine the impact of street environmental factors on their choice of walking path. It was found that: (1) people with higher levels of education preferred streets with water bodies as walking paths; (2) the environmental quality of the physical and aesthetic aspects both had an impact on residents’ choices, and the aesthetic environmental quality had a stronger impact; (3) the impact of most infrastructures on community streets was stronger than on other streets; (4) residents were more concerned about the environmental quality of waterfront paths and urban greenways. Based on these findings, three design patterns for residents’ preferred street environments are proposed.

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Yan, Q.; Luo, S.; Jiang, J. Urban Residents’ Preferred Walking Street Setting and Environmental Factors: The Case of Chengdu City. Buildings 2023, 13, 1199.
https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051199

AMA Style

Yan Q, Luo S, Jiang J. Urban Residents’ Preferred Walking Street Setting and Environmental Factors: The Case of Chengdu City. Buildings. 2023; 13(5):1199.
https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051199

Chicago/Turabian Style

Yan, Qian, Shixian Luo, and Jiayi Jiang. 2023. “Urban Residents’ Preferred Walking Street Setting and Environmental Factors: The Case of Chengdu City” Buildings 13, no. 5: 1199.
https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051199

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