Built Environment and Physical Activity in Suburban Guangzhou Residences: A People

《Built Environment and Physical Activity in Suburban Guangzhou Residences: A People–Environment Transaction Perspective》

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作者单位: Research Associate, School of Geography, South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou 510631, China.;Associate Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China (corresponding author). Email: [email protected]; [email protected];Professor, School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Garden Point Campus, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia.

摘要: The connection between the built environment and the physical activity of people is increasingly emphasized in China, given its unique suburbanization and dramatic changes in lifestyle. This paper aims to provide more evidence on equivocal findings on specific built environments and physical activities by examining the roles of the built environment on people’s physical activity within suburban residences in Guangzhou (China). Multinomial logistic and ordinal regression analyses were used to identify the factors associated with physical activity that indicated the unique features of urban-type suburban residences: residential density, street connectivity, pedestrian infrastructure, design features, safety, destination accessibility, and pedestrian infrastructure. The confounding effects of individual sociodemographic characteristics are ascertained in interpretive, evaluative, and responsive transactions between the built environment and physical activity, highlighting the determinative nature of perceived environmental opportunities and barriers to physical activity. With the absence of operative transactions, key stakeholders of commodity housing developments should be motivated, and residents need to be educated and empowered to help realize a better, physically active living environment.