Li Jiuling, Koohsari Mohammad Javad, Kaczynski Andrew T, Tanimoto Ryo, Watanabe Reo, Nakaya Tomoki, Luo Yufeng, Zhao Jing, Yasunaga Akitomo, Oka Koichiro, Hanibuchi Tomoya
School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.
Prev Med Rep. 2025 Jan 11;50:102969. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2025.102969. eCollection 2025 Feb.
Place attachment plays an important role in individuals' health and well-being. Understanding the associations between urban design attributes and place attachment can inform strategies to promote place attachment. This study aims to examine the associations between walkable built environment metrics and place attachment.
This study used data collected from October to November 2020, involving 25,340 adults across 21 major cities in Japan. Geographic address information was used to measure objective walkability, while perceived walkability and place attachment were assessed using adapted scales. Ordinary least squares regression models were employed to analyse associations.
For individual metrics, three objective measures-availability of destinations, population density, and street integration-were positively associated with place attachment. Several perceived measures, including access to shops, daily life facilities, public green spaces, public transports, the presence of paths, crime safety, and aesthetics, also showed positive associations with place attachment. For composite indices, traditional walkability, space syntax walkability, and perceived walkability were positively correlated with place attachment.
These findings demonstrate the associations between walkable built environment metrics and place attachment, showing variations in metric types.
场所依恋在个体的健康和幸福中起着重要作用。了解城市设计属性与场所依恋之间的关联可为促进场所依恋的策略提供依据。本研究旨在探讨适宜步行的建成环境指标与场所依恋之间的关联。
本研究使用了2020年10月至11月收集的数据，涉及日本21个主要城市的25340名成年人。地理地址信息用于衡量客观的步行便利性，而感知的步行便利性和场所依恋则使用改编后的量表进行评估。采用普通最小二乘法回归模型分析关联。
对于个体指标，三个客观指标——目的地可达性、人口密度和街道整合度——与场所依恋呈正相关。一些感知指标，包括到商店、日常生活设施、公共绿地、公共交通的可达性、路径的存在、犯罪安全性和美观性，也与场所依恋呈正相关。对于综合指数，传统步行便利性、空间句法步行便利性和感知步行便利性与场所依恋呈正相关。
这些发现证明了适宜步行的建成环境指标与场所依恋之间的关联，表明指标类型存在差异。
