Evaluation on the Internal Public Space Quality in Affordable Housing Based on Multi-Source Data and IPA Analysis

Jie Zhao,Yang Yu,Yan Yu,Lingbo Liu,Zhenghong Peng

doi:10.3390/land10101000

Abstract

Much affordable housing has poor accessibility to external urban public space facilities because of its suburb location, which makes the residents’ daily life and social activities mainly depend on the internal public space of the community. Such affordable housing needs urgent upgrading of the internal public space based on the thorough understanding of the low-income residents’ demand ranking. The internal spaces’ transformation will significantly improve the living environment and the quality of residents’ life, and it also provides a way to promote social equity and sustainable urban development. By using the multi-source data and the two-step floating catchment area method, this paper selects typical affordable housing, which has poor accessibility to external urban public space, as our case study. After establishing the evaluation index system, IPA (Importance and Performance Analysis) is used to calculate the quadrant value of each index so as to clarify the upgrading urgency indexes from the residents’ demand for internal public space of affordable housing. Studies have shown that tables, chairs and pavilions, pedestrian systems, retail commercial facilities, medical and health facilities, and recreational space have the strongest urgency for upgrading; fitness facilities, exercise space, barrier-free access, guidance signs and parking lot design are the next most urgent indexes; Recreational facilities, entrances/exits of the residential area, green space in front of t residential buildings, and cultural facilities all have general urgency for upgrading.

Highlights

With the rapid progress of global urbanization, a large number of people from villages and towns flock to cities to work
In order to improve the social equity and justice of affordable housing residents’ living space, strengthening the quality of public space for affordable housing residents has become an important means of affordable housing renewal and an important research goal of the planning profession
This paper evaluates the satisfaction-importance degree of affordable housing residents on the use of internal public space in three steps

Summary

Introduction

With the rapid progress of global urbanization, a large number of people from villages and towns flock to cities to work. The original low-income groups in the city are affected by this phenomenon, making it increasingly difficult for them to support themselves. Governments have started to build affordable housing, so that the low-income groups can live a higher-quality of life [3,4]. Affordable housing usually faces problems such as low sense of community identity, lack of vitality, dissatisfaction of residents with the living environment, and the absence of cultural and humanistic ambience [8]. In order to improve the social equity and justice of affordable housing residents’ living space, strengthening the quality of public space for affordable housing residents has become an important means of affordable housing renewal and an important research goal of the planning profession

Methods

Results

Discussion

Conclusion