Residential built environment and walking activity: Empirical evidence of Jane Jacobs’ urban vitality |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;2. Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA;3. Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;4. School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;5. Department of Urban and Economic Geography, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;1. School of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;2. Key Laboratory of GIS, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;3. Key Laboratory of Digital Mapping and Land Information Application Engineering, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;4. Collaborative Innovation Center Of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;5. Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, United States;1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, China;2. School of Architecture and Hang Lung Center for Real Estate, Tsinghua University, China;3. Natural Resources Research Centre of Nanjing University, Nanjing University, China |
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| Abstract: | This study intends to empirically verify Jacobs’ urban vitality theory, which was based on the observations of her New York City neighborhood in the mid-20th century. To examine the relationship between the residential built environment and walking activity, we used telephone survey data consisting of 1823 valid samples from across Seoul, a city characterized by a high population density and a well-established public transportation system. Respondents were asked questions about their residential location, their demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and their walking activities. This study then used geographic information systems to measure objective indicators of built environment variables within 500-meter buffer areas based on the home addresses of the respondents. Then, this study constructed multilevel regression models with walking activity as the dependent variable. Our results indicated that walking activity is associated with Jacobs’ six conditions for urban vitality, including land use mix, density, block size, building age, accessibility, and border vacuums. |
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| Keywords: | Residential built environment Jane Jacobs Urban vitality Urban design Walking activity |
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