Decoding the Street-Based Spatiality of Urban Gyms: Implications for Healthy City Planning

Ying Jing, Ding Ma, Yaolin Liu, Jiaxing Cui, Sheng Zhang and Yiyun Chen
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Ying Jing: Ningbo Institute of Technology, School of Economics, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315000, China
Ding Ma: Research Institute for Smart Cities, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518000, China
Yaolin Liu: School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430000, China
Jiaxing Cui: College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430000, China
Sheng Zhang: Ningbo Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315000, China
Yiyun Chen: School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430000, China

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-14

Abstract: Many cities face health issues that result from ineffective urban planning strategies. The chances of doing exercises in sportive venues implicate public health and citizen quality of life. With the advent of the geo-big data era, it is crucial to explore the spatial pattern of sports facilities to reflect urban health issues. This study aims to decode the street-based spatiality of gyms (one prevailing type of sportive venues) from a comprehensive perspective by both geometric methods (i.e., segment streets) and topological analytics in the context of complexity science (i.e., complex network derived from the topology of natural streets). We found that: (1) gyms are spatially clustered and distributed unevenly; (2) community-to-gym walkability fits the power-law with a heavy-tailed distribution at the 10-min and 20-min temporal scales; (3) the model for the street connectivity and the multi-distance reachability of gyms is with high polynomial fitting goodness. This article is conducive to strategies-making of healthy city planning and the further optimization of urban spatial structure.

Keywords: gymnasiums; geometric methods; topological analysis; natural streets; healthy city planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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