Page 42 - JCAU-5-3

Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Walkability evaluation of Beijing Old Town

of the culture of a Central Axis. It is hoped that this study Blečić, I., Cecchini, A., & Trunfio, G. A. (2018). Towards automatic
can provide insights to the application of Central Axis for assessment of perceived walkability. In: O Gervasi, B Murgante,
the World Heritage status, and offer updated suggestions S Misra, E Stankova, CM Torre, AMA Rocha, et al., (eds.).
for improving the walkability of the streets around the Computational Science and Its Applications-ICCSA 2018.
Central Axis. Cham: Springer International Publishing, p.351-365.
https://doi.org/10/gn8jcq
Acknowledgments
Carson, J. R., Conway, T. L., Perez, L. G., Frank, L. D.,
None. Saelens, B. E., Cain, K. L., et al. (2023). Neighborhood
walkability, neighborhood social health, and self-selection
Funding among U.S. adults. Health Place, 82:103036.
This project was funded by the National Natural Science https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103036
Foundation of China “Research on Urban Green Space Cerin, E., Macfarlane, D. J., Ko, H. H., & Chan, K. C. A. (2007).
Renovation Based on Walkability” (No: 51708030). Measuring perceived neighbourhood walkability in Hong
Kong. Cities, 24(3):209-217.
Conflict of interest
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2006.12.002
The authors declare that this paper has no conflict of Clifton, K. J., LiviSmith, A. D., & Rodriguez, D. (2007).
interest with other institutions or organizations. The development and testing of anaudit for the

Author contributions pedestrian environment. Landscape and Urban Planning,
80(1-2):95-110.
Conceptualization: Xiaoyong Zhang, Changming Yu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.06.008
Data curation: Xiaoyong Zhang, Yue Gong
Investigation: Xiaoyong Zhang, Yue Gong Cunningham, G. O., Michael, Y. L., Farquhar, S. A., & Lapidus, J.
(2005). Developing a reliable senior walking environmental
Methodology: Xiaoyong Zhang, Yue Gong assessment tool. American Journal of Preventive Medicine,
Writing – original draft: Xiaoyong Zhang, Changming Yu 29(3):215-217.
Writing – review & editing: Xiaoyong Zhang, Changming
Yu, Yue Gong https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2005.05.002
Dong, S., & Long, S. (2015). Research on the walkability
Ethics approval and consent to participate measurement method and development strategy of
residential area based on fuzzy comprehensive evaluation:
The interview content of this study does not involve the A case study of Chongqing typical residential area. Journal of
privacy of the interviewees, and the interviews were not Human Settlements in West China, 30(1):106-112.
recorded. Only the interviewees’ responses regarding the
evaluation of street walkability were obtained. Ewing, R., & Handy, S. (2009). Measuring the unmeasurable:
Urban design qualities related to walkability. Journal of
Consent for publication Urban Design, 14(1):65-84.

Not applicable. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574800802451155
Fang, J., Liu, J., Wang, D., & Yu, C. (2018). Analysis of 6 foreign
Availability of data urban street planning and design guidelines--How to plan
pedestrian-friendly urban street open space? Landscape
Building and road network data within the area were Architecture, 25(11):33-39.
obtained using the OpenStreetMap platform, and then
unified into GCS_WGS_1984 geographic coordinates in Fang, Z., He, L., & Zhang, D. (2021). Measurement of amenity
the ArcGis platform. Then, on the open platform of Baidu and identification of influencing factors in Shanghai street
Map, the function of “obtaining panoramic data” was used space based on multi-source data analysis. New Building,
198(5):142-147.
to capture and select street scenes in the four directions
of the road every 200 m, and the view data of vehicles in Frank, L. D., Sallis, J. F., Saelens, B. E., Leary, L., Cain, K.,
February 2022 were obtained, to obtain a total of 800 street Conway, T. L., et al. (2010). The development of a walkability
attractions and 3200 Baidu Street Views. index: Application to the neighborhood quality of life study.
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 44(13):924-933.
References https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2009.058701

Ashihara, Y. (2006). The Aesthetics of the Street. Peitong, Y., Trans. Gehl, J. (2011). Life between Buildings: Using Public Space.
Tianjin: Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House. Washington, DC: Island Press. (Original work published 1987)

Volume 5 Issue 3 (2023) 11 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1033