Abstract
Recently there are many problems of living environment with the densely built-up area and the urban sprawl in local cities in China which have achieved rapid economic development. The improvement of living environment is required in terms of the city planning in the future. This study was conducted to investigate the evaluation structure and the residents needs of living environment in the city planning area of LangFang City in HeBei Province using the questionnaire survey data. As a result, it was found that the evaluation structure of living environment was composed of three factors; living comfort, community cohesion, and nature environment, and that the land cover of built-up area and agricultural land had an influence on the evaluation of living environment, and that the residents needs of living comfort were high.
