Does street greenery always promote active travel? Evidence from Beijing

Wu, Jiayu; Wang, Binhui; Ta, Na; Zhou, Kan; Chai, Yanwei

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126886

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“…Researchers have found a wide array of health benefits of walking [ 11 , 12 ]. Exposure to greenness may encourage more physical activity, such as walking [ 13 , 14 ], walking in green spaces (“green exercise”) accrue more health benefits, and have additional mental health benefits [ 10 , 15 ]. In principle, a healthy neighborhood design should integrate greenness and walkability as the foundation of the neighborhood’s morphology to promote green walking.…”

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confidence: 99%

Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together: Investigating Associations between Greenness and Walkability in a Large Metropolitan City Context

Shuvo

Mazumdar

Labib

2021

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Background: The existing environment literature separately emphasizes the importance of neighborhood walkability and greenness in enhancing health and wellbeing. Thus, a desirable neighborhood should ideally be green and walkable at the same time. Yet, limited research exists on the prevalence of such “sweet spot” neighborhoods. We sought to investigate this question in the context of a large metropolitan city (i.e., Sydney) in Australia. Methods: Using suburb level normalized difference vegetative index (NDVI), percentage urban greenspace, Walk ScoreÒ (Walk Score, Seattle, USA), and other data, we explored the global and local relationships of neighborhood-level greenness, urban green space (percent park area) with walkability applying both non-spatial and spatial modeling. Results: We found an overall negative relationship between walkability and greenness (measured as NDVI). Most neighborhoods (represented by suburbs) in Sydney are either walkable or green, but not both. Sweet spot neighborhoods that did exist were green but only somewhat walkable. In addition, many neighborhoods were both less green and somewhat walkable. Moreover, we observed a significant positive relationship between percentage park area and walkability. These results indicate walkability and greenness have inverse and, at best, mixed associations in the Sydney metropolitan area. Conclusions: Our analysis indicates an overall negative relationship between greenness and walkability, with significant local variability. With ongoing efforts towards greening Sydney and improving walkability, more neighborhoods may eventually be transformed into becoming greener and more walkable.

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confidence: 99%

Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together: Investigating Associations between Greenness and Walkability in a Large Metropolitan City Context

Shuvo

Mazumdar

Labib

2021

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“…It has been proven that noise makes people uncomfortable as well as causes heart diseases, blood pressure, stress and sleep disorders (Muahram et al 2019;Sheweka and Magdy 2011). Integrating green zones in urban areas reduces these issues significantly (Li et al 2015;Wu et al 2020;Xia et al 2021). Symptoms like cough, fatigue, and dry or itchy skin are reduced by 37, 30, and 23% respectively in the vicinity of greenery (M 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Urban green space as part of the urban built environment provides benefits such as shade, landscape, fragrant atmosphere and absorption of pollutants (Wu et al 2020). As per Alexander (1977), it is also a factor for an active street that offers walkability.…”

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Living walls enhancing the urban realm: a review

Goel

Jha

Khan

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In the current Anthropocene epoch, globalization and urbanization have adversely affected our environment causing global warming. To counter the adverse effects of global warming, research is being conducted into many innovative technologies to identify viable solutions. This paper will focus on one such solution, Living walls and how the built form is enriched by the environmental and psychological benefits provided by Living walls. Buildings with Living walls have lively surroundings which enhance the urban fabric. This review paper shall elaborate on the effects of Living walls on the built environment in the urban realm and analyze how Living walls improve the urban fabric in terms of activity and behavior pattern, streetscape and building frontage.

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“…Many studies on travel behavior have found that the built environment and sociodemographics are strongly associated with walking and cycling (e.g., see [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]). Individuals' active travel choices are infuenced by built-environment characteristics such as walk-bike infrastructure [7], street pattern [8], route connectivity [9], street greenery [10], and population density [11]. Changes in the built environment, according to Handy et al [12], infuence travel mode choice primarily by altering travel time.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spatial Heterogeneity in the Nonlinear Impact of Built Environment on Commuting Time of Active Users: A Gradient Boosting Regression Tree Approach

Tang

Shen

et al. 2023

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Many studies provided evidence regarding the influence of built environment (BE) on commuting time. However, few studies have considered the spatial heterogeneity of such impacts. Using data from Nanjing, China, this study employs two-step clustering and gradient boosted regression trees (GBRT) to segment the neighborhoods into different types and investigate the effects of BE characteristics on the commuting time of active users. The results show a strong effect of BE characteristics on commuting time, involving active modes. The importance of BE characteristics varies among neighborhood types. For active commuters in the internal region of Nanjing, commuting time is affected mostly by the land use mix at the work end. The lowest impact of BE in internal regions is associated with metro station density. For active commuters in external region of the city, the relative importance of intersection density at the home end is the largest (as high as 5.76%). Moreover, other significant differences are found in the associations between BE characteristics and active commuting time in the two regions.

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Does street greenery always promote active travel? Evidence from Beijing

Cited by 38 publications

References 81 publications

Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together: Investigating Associations between Greenness and Walkability in a Large Metropolitan City Context

Walkability and Greenness Do Not Walk Together: Investigating Associations between Greenness and Walkability in a Large Metropolitan City Context

Living walls enhancing the urban realm: a review

Spatial Heterogeneity in the Nonlinear Impact of Built Environment on Commuting Time of Active Users: A Gradient Boosting Regression Tree Approach

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