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Zhai, Yuji.

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Urban Park Pathway Design Characteristics and Seniors' Walking Behavior.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Urban Park Pathway Design Characteristics and Seniors' Walking Behavior./
Author:	Zhai, Yuji.
Description:	302 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-11A(E).
Subject:	Landscape architecture. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3710723
ISBN:	9781321867060

Urban Park Pathway Design Characteristics and Seniors' Walking Behavior.
Zhai, Yuji.

Urban Park Pathway Design Characteristics and Seniors' Walking Behavior. - 302 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2014.

In recent studies on built environment and physical activity, urban parks have been identified as important local settings that encourage people's physical activities (McCormack, Rock, Toohey, & Hignell, 2010). However, as a considerable inactive group, senior population has not received enough attention in extent park-based physical activity studies (Cunningham et al., 2005). This research responds to such a gap, and aims at exploring how urban park design characteristics are related to seniors' walking within park. Study sites for this research are two neighborhood parks located in Beijing. Comprised of correlational research and interviews, mixed methods approach is applied in this study. For correlational research, independent variables of pathway characteristics are selected based on previous frameworks and findings, and they measure pathway characteristics in four aspects, including pathway physical attributes, pathway configurational attributes, spatial characteristics of pathway surrounding, and visual characteristics of pathway surrounding. Aggregate numbers of senior users on each pathway observed in 24 rounds of observations work as the dependent variables. In the interviews, senior participants were invited to talk about their perceptions about walking in the parks, as wells as pathway characteristics they like and dislike. Overall, the study results indicate that pathways that have even pavement, have benches and light fixtures, are long and have a width between 3-3.9 meters, are connected to other pathway segments, have relatively high configurational accessibility, and are closer to park entrances are heavily used by seniors.

ISBN: 9781321867060Subjects--Topical Terms:

541842
Landscape architecture.

Urban Park Pathway Design Characteristics and Seniors' Walking Behavior.
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