IMPACT OF HUMAN-SCALE STREET SPACE QUALITY ON WALKING TO SCHOOL BY SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN:A CASE STUDY OF BEIJING
Improving the quality of street space can not only promote children's physical activity and their health,but also push forward the construction of child-friendly cities in China.Previous studies on the associations between the built environment and walking to school by school-age children are insufficient,and have paid little attention to human-scale street space.Using the traffic survey data of Beijing in 2015 in combination with streetscape and basic geographic information data,this paper identifies the built environment elements that affects school-age children's choice of walking to school,especially the street space elements at the human scale,and controls the possible deviations caused by residential self-selection.Results show that:street walkability and vitality are significantly correlated with the probability of walking to school by school-age children,and the children with better socio-economic conditions are more likely to walk to school due to the improvement of street space quality;after controlling the residential self-selection deviations,the street space quality still has a significant correlation with the probability of walking to school.This study can provide a scientific basis for the evaluation of street space quality and the construction of child-friendly cities.
street space qualityschool-age childrenwalking to schoolstreetscaperesidential self-selection
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