School of Architecture and Urban-rural Planning, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, China.
Laboratory of Smart Habitat for Humanity, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China.
BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 20;24(1):2251. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19605-4.
The association between built environment and physical activity has been recognized. However, how and to what extent microscale streetscapes are related to running activity remains underexplored, partly due to the lack of running data in large urban areas. Moreover, few studies have examined the interactive effects of macroscale built environment and microscale streetscapes. This study examines the main and interactive effects of the two-level environments on running intensity, using 9.73 million fitness tracker data from Keep in Shanghai, China. Results of spatial error model showed that: 1) the explanatory power of microscale streetscapes was higher than that of macroscale built environment with R of 0.245 and 0.240, respectively, which is different from the prior finding that R is greater for macroscale built environment than for microscale streetscape; 2) sky and green view indexes were positively associated with running intensity, whereas visual crowdedness had a negative effect; 3) there were negative interactions of land use Herfindahl-Hirschman index with sky and green view indexes, while a positive interaction was observed for visual crowdedness. To conclude, greener, more open and less visually crowded streetscapes, can promote running behavior and enhance the benefits of land use mix as well. The findings highlight the importance of streetscapes in promoting running behavior, instead of a supplement to macroscale built environment.
已经认识到了建筑环境与身体活动之间的关联。然而，微观街道景观与跑步活动之间的关系以及这种关系的程度仍未得到充分探究，部分原因是在大型城市地区缺乏跑步数据。此外，很少有研究检验过大尺度建筑环境和微尺度街道景观的交互作用。本研究使用来自中国上海 Keep 的 973 万条健身追踪器数据，检验了两个层面环境对跑步强度的主要和交互作用。空间误差模型的结果表明：1）微观街道景观的解释力高于大尺度建筑环境，其 R 分别为 0.245 和 0.240，这与先前的发现不同，即大尺度建筑环境的 R 大于微观街道景观；2）天空和绿色视野指数与跑步强度呈正相关，而视觉拥挤度则呈负相关；3）土地利用赫芬达尔-赫希曼指数与天空和绿色视野指数存在负向交互作用，而与视觉拥挤度存在正向交互作用。总之，更绿色、更开放和视觉上不那么拥挤的街道景观可以促进跑步行为，并增强土地利用混合的益处。研究结果强调了街道景观在促进跑步行为方面的重要性，而不是对大尺度建筑环境的补充。
