Leng Hong, Zheng Chunyu, Lu Yuwen

Keywords： Walkability; Winter City; Elder People; Public Space; Travel to Physical Activity

Abstract：

As China gradually enters an aging society, health issues of elder people grab the attention of whole society. Doing adequate physical activity is beneficial for health of elder people. Better accessibility could increase the utilization of public space, encourage urban residents to participate in physical activity. However, the climate characteristic is a domain factor for winter cities. Although there is a growing number of researches concerning elder people and walkability. However, knowledge gap regarding to climate context exists, especially in winter climate characteristics in cold region. This paper takes Harbin, a typical winter city of China, as research site, analyzes the current situation of public space walkability according to the physical activity behaviors and travel behaviors of elder people. Based on it, combined with the experience of cold cities in North America such as Ottawa and with the walkability status of winter cities in China, strategies including reallocating spatial distribution of public spaces, constructing comprehensive walking system and creating enjoyable walking environment to improve and optimize the walkability of urban public space are proposed.

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