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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Social-Ecological Urban Systems
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1416048

The Impact of Urban Waterfront Green Space on Public Health and Well-being Based on User Perspective: A Case Study of Shanghai, China

Provisionally accepted
Hongyu Du Hongyu Du 1*Fengqi Zhou Fengqi Zhou 1Yanru Fu Yanru Fu 2
  • 1 Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China
  • 2 Shanghai Botanical Garden, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

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    Urban Waterfront Green Space (UWGS) boosts economic and cultural activities as an iconic urban landscape element. It impacts public health and well-being (PHW) with the aesthetic landscape, open spaces, historical monuments and cultural recreations. This study reveals the relationship between UWGS and PHW regarding landscape configuration, function classification, environment quality, and waterfront landscape elements. By methods of hierarchical analysis, field investigation and statistical analysis based on a subjective PHW questionnaire towards 540 visitors at 36 sites of 7 waterfront parks in Shanghai, China, the results indicate that important indicators in landscape configuration are portion of impervious surfaces, presence of microtopography and presence of natural trails. Important function classification factors are presence of accessible lawns and athletic fields. As to the environment quality and waterfront elements, more layers and colorful vegetation, water view, waterside space, natural bank and flower scent improve PHW.

    Keywords: Waterfront landscape, Green space, public health and well-being, Shanghai, Hierarchical analysis

    Received: 11 Apr 2024; Accepted: 26 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Du, Zhou and Fu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hongyu Du, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China

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