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Architecture and Urbanism Leisure-time physical activity

Figure 9. The proportion of significant associations between urban built environment characteristics and residents’ LTPA levels in the 12 articles.
Source: Illustrated by the author

Figure 10. Innovation model of the association between urban built environment characteristics and floating population’s leisure-time physical activity
(LTPA) levels in the future. Source: Illustration by the authors

enhance the accuracy of characteristic identification and acquisition methods tailored to specific demographic
element extraction for urban BE. Utilizing computer groups.
vision and machine learning technologies (Ibrahim et al.,
2020) within the artificial intelligence context can enable Third, follow-up studies should prioritize investigating
the acquisition of data with subjective intentions such as the health effects of physical activity in urban-specific
place perception, emotions, and impressions. Combining populations, such as the floating population supporting
this data with high-resolution remote sensing image labor-intensive industries. Given that China hosts the
data (Wen et al., 2021) can facilitate the extraction of world’s largest floating population (Fan & Li, 2020),
additional features suitable for the BE in Chinese cities. addressing their health vulnerabilities due to poor
These features play crucial roles in land use modeling and working and living environment, and the lack of social
understanding and shaping the spatial organization of security and support in places of immigration is crucial.
human activities. The floating population is extremely vulnerable to health
Second, improving methods for measuring LTPA levels risks such as infectious diseases, occupational diseases,
in the population is imperative. Building on traditional and poor reproductive and mental health (Wu et al.,
measurement methods such as the International Physical 2021). Improving key built-environment elements and
Activity Scale, the utilization of emerging low-cost creating living environments conducive to good health are
sensors and wearable devices allows for the application important measures for achieving overall health goals for
of accelerometer and global positioning system data this vulnerable population.

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