2023 Volume 88 Issue 804 Pages 424-435
This paper summarizes the findings of a questionnaire survey conducted in three Chinese urban communities to identify the influencing factors to elderly residents’ common space use. The results show that the elderly’s common space use patterns are influenced by the types of communities, types of residents, and physical features of common spaces, as well as common-space-type-based location, physical settings, and activities. Overall, the availability of alternatives influences common space use intentions of the elderly. Hence, it is essential to design different types of common spaces and consider common spaces both outside and inside a community as a coherent system.
