Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in Shanghai

With the growing awareness of public health, urban parks have increasingly become popular venues for physical activities due to their accessibility and pleasant landscapes, among which walking, jogging, and running dominate. This study innovatively integrates exercise trajectory data from the Strava...

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Main Authors: Nan Wang, Qiongruo Wang, Weixuan Wei, Guanpeng Liu, Ming Liu
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
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Guanpeng Liu
Ming Liu
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Ming Liu
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description With the growing awareness of public health, urban parks have increasingly become popular venues for physical activities due to their accessibility and pleasant landscapes, among which walking, jogging, and running dominate. This study innovatively integrates exercise trajectory data from the Strava platform and semantic segmentation technology to analyze the interaction mechanisms among park view elements, physical activities, and physiological responses, based on empirical data from three representative parks in Shanghai. This study includes the following: (1) acquiring hotspot exercise paths and physiological data (heart rate and speed) of walking, jogging, and running users through the open Strava platform; (2) conducting semantic segmentation on real-word photos of three case parks to extract 17 types of park elements; (3) applying Spearman’s correlation analysis to reveal the differential impacts of park elements on physiological responses under walking, jogging, and running behaviors, demonstrating that combinations of elements such as trees, water bodies, fences, and sky influence exercise performance; and (4) constructing scene modules for site attraction, training improvement, and restorative relaxation for walking, jogging, and running, and proposing phased landscape scene sequence strategies to provide quantitative guidance for health-oriented park planning and design. This study breaks through the limitations of traditional subjective evaluations by coupling objective physiological data with spatial elements, offering novel insights for optimizing the exercise functionality of urban green spaces.
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spelling doaj-art-88af323bb62947b79a07d44071d98edd2025-08-20T02:59:14ZengMDPI AGBuildings2075-53092025-05-01159151810.3390/buildings15091518Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in ShanghaiNan Wang0Qiongruo Wang1Weixuan Wei2Guanpeng Liu3Ming Liu4School of Architecture, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211800, ChinaSchool of Architecture, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211800, ChinaCollege of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, ChinaSchool of Humanities, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, ChinaSchool of Architecture, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 211800, ChinaWith the growing awareness of public health, urban parks have increasingly become popular venues for physical activities due to their accessibility and pleasant landscapes, among which walking, jogging, and running dominate. This study innovatively integrates exercise trajectory data from the Strava platform and semantic segmentation technology to analyze the interaction mechanisms among park view elements, physical activities, and physiological responses, based on empirical data from three representative parks in Shanghai. This study includes the following: (1) acquiring hotspot exercise paths and physiological data (heart rate and speed) of walking, jogging, and running users through the open Strava platform; (2) conducting semantic segmentation on real-word photos of three case parks to extract 17 types of park elements; (3) applying Spearman’s correlation analysis to reveal the differential impacts of park elements on physiological responses under walking, jogging, and running behaviors, demonstrating that combinations of elements such as trees, water bodies, fences, and sky influence exercise performance; and (4) constructing scene modules for site attraction, training improvement, and restorative relaxation for walking, jogging, and running, and proposing phased landscape scene sequence strategies to provide quantitative guidance for health-oriented park planning and design. This study breaks through the limitations of traditional subjective evaluations by coupling objective physiological data with spatial elements, offering novel insights for optimizing the exercise functionality of urban green spaces.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/9/1518landscape architecturepark view elementwalkingjoggingrunning behaviorphysiological response
spellingShingle Nan Wang
Qiongruo Wang
Weixuan Wei
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Ming Liu
Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in Shanghai
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landscape architecture
park view element
walking
jogging
running behavior
physiological response
title Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in Shanghai
title_full Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in Shanghai
title_fullStr Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in Shanghai
title_full_unstemmed Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in Shanghai
title_short Landscape Scene Sequences of Park View Elements Facilitate Walking, Jogging, and Running: Evidence from 3 Parks in Shanghai
title_sort landscape scene sequences of park view elements facilitate walking jogging and running evidence from 3 parks in shanghai
topic landscape architecture
park view element
walking
jogging
running behavior
physiological response
url https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/9/1518
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