School of Architecture and Art, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Management of the Built Environment Department, Architecture and the Built Environment Faculty, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.
Front Public Health. 2022 Apr 5;10:861456. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.861456. eCollection 2022.
Outdoor physical activities can promote public health and they are largely influenced by the built environment in different urban settings. Understanding the association between outdoor physical activities and the built environment is important for promoting a high quality of life. Existing studies typically focus on one type of outdoor activity using interview-based small samples and are often lack of systematic understanding of the activities' intensity and frequency. In this study, we intend to gain deeper insight into how the built environment influences physical activities using the data extracted from individual's wearables and other open data sources for integrated analysis. Multi-linear regression with logarithm transformation is applied to perform the analysis using the data from Changsha, China. We found that built environment impacts on outdoor physical activities in Changsha are not always consistent with similar studies' results in other cities. The most effective measures to promote outdoor physical activities are the provision of good arterial and secondary road networks, community parks, among others in Changsha. The results shed light on future urban planning practices in terms of promoting public health.
户外体育活动可以促进公众健康，它们在很大程度上受到不同城市环境中建成环境的影响。了解户外体育活动与建成环境之间的关系对于提高生活质量至关重要。现有研究通常侧重于使用基于访谈的小样本的一种户外活动，并且往往缺乏对活动强度和频率的系统理解。在这项研究中，我们打算使用从个人可穿戴设备和其他开放数据源中提取的数据，通过综合分析，更深入地了解建成环境如何影响体育活动。我们使用来自中国长沙的数据，应用对数变换的多元线性回归来进行分析。我们发现，长沙建成环境对户外体育活动的影响并不总是与其他城市类似研究的结果一致。在长沙，促进户外体育活动的最有效措施是提供良好的干道和次干道网络、社区公园等。研究结果为未来的城市规划实践提供了关于促进公众健康的思路。
