Physical activity has been increasingly recognized as a way to promote public health. However, little is known that residents' access to such services is influenced by the distribution of those recreational facilities on a geographical basis within a city, particularly in China. This study aims to investigate disparities in spatial accessibility and characteristics of users' exercise behaviour. The research also examines the impact of planning adjustment on developing healthy communities and…

Rapid urbanization and urban expansion have produced a large number of urban rural communities in China, of which two typical paradigms are urban fringe villages (Chengbiancun) and urban villages (Chengzhongcun). This urbanized rural community usually is an informal settlement with low-quality housing, and lack of planning regulation adjacent to or merged into urban boundary. Meanwhile, Chengbiancun is transforming with traditional rural social and economic characteristics. In the absence of…

在城市社会转型时期村庄空心化、产业不景气等系列问题不断显现的背景下,厦门提出了美好环境共同缔造的行动计划。本文以乡村社区为研究基本单元,在阐述社区发展过程中,物质环境、人的活动与社会的关系内涵的基础上,分析了新社区规划的工作路径;以厦门市海沧区西山社为案例,从空间环境、群众参与两个方面展现了公众参与促进农村社区活动,空间营造重构社会关系的新社区规划过程;并得出结论:新社区规划是行之有效的村庄规划与治理模式,村庄规划应向社区规划转型,从"蓝图导向出发"转向"问题导向出发"、从"注重空间结构"转向"注重社会关系"、从"编制物质规划"转向"商定行动计划"。