Do Vibrant Places Promote Active Living? Analyzing Local Vibrancy, Running Activity, and Real Estate Prices in Beijing

Yuan Lai (), Jiatong Li, Jiachen Zhang, Lan Yan and Yifeng Liu
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Yuan Lai: Department of Urban Planning and Design, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Jiatong Li: Department of Urban Planning and Design, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Jiachen Zhang: Department of Urban Planning and Design, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Lan Yan: Department of Urban Planning and Design, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Yifeng Liu: Department of Urban Planning and Design, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 24, 1-19

Abstract: Although extensive research has investigated urban vibrancy as a critical indicator for spatial planning, urban design, and economic development, the unclear relationship between local vibrancy and active living needs to be clarified and requires more in-depth analysis. This study localizes urban vibrancy at both hyper-local and neighborhood scales by integrating high-resolution, large-scale, and heterogeneous urban datasets and analyzing interactions among variables representing vibrancy’s environmental, economic, and social aspects. We utilize publicly available urban open data, Points of Interest requested from API, and leisure running trajectories acquired through data mining to investigate the spatial distribution of various vibrancy indicators and how they interact with physical activity at the local scale. Based on these variables, we then construct linear regression models and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models to test and estimate how local vibrancy and physical activity relate to residential real estate characteristics. The results reveal the strong impact of urban form on local vibrancy but not physical activeness. At the neighborhood level, all vibrancy factors are statistically significant to local residential real estate prices but with different interactions based on location. Our study highlights the importance of accounting for locality and different physical, environmental, social, and economic factors when analyzing and interpreting urban vibrancy at a granular scale within a city.

Keywords: urban vibrancy; physical activity; neighborhood development; urban analytics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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