Improving Outdoor Activity in China’s Newly Developed Residential Communities?

Authors

  • Qing Yin Department of Built Environment, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Ryuzo Ohno Department of Built Environment, Tokyo Institute of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i12.127

Keywords:

Outdoor activity, physical environment, residential community, social network

Abstract

Evidences suggested outdoor activities in newly developed communities in China have become less active than older ones. Improving outdoor activities by physical environment is the major concern of this research. This paper used a basic social-ecological model to explain the mechanism of outdoor activities in China. An intensive survey was carried out to examine how environmental factors affect outdoor activities. 7668 users’ activity data were obtained by observation, and the activities observed were categorized into three groups concerning environment involvement. The result suggested that some factors such as accessibility, environment supports are linked to outdoor activities in China.

Keywords: Outdoor activity; physical environment; residential community; social network

eISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. 

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2018-07-19

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Yin, Q., & Ohno, R. (2018). Improving Outdoor Activity in China’s Newly Developed Residential Communities?. Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies, 3(12), 103–114. https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i12.127

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