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Landscape Preferences and Leisure Constraints in Age-Friendly Community Parks
Yang Li1, Chunlan Du1, Bo Li1
1School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Chongqing University, Chongqing, P.R. China.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|August 6, 2026
Summary
Older adults
Area of Science:
- Urban Planning
- Gerontology
- Leisure Studies
Background:
- Community parks are vital public spaces for older adults' physical activity.
- Age-friendly urban planning is crucial, yet understanding leisure participation drivers in mountainous cities is limited.
- The influence of landscape characteristics on serious leisure through constraint negotiation needs further exploration.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how landscape characteristics affect serious leisure participation among older adults in mountainous community parks.
- To examine the role of leisure constraint negotiation in this relationship.
- To adapt and test a reorganized negotiation model incorporating landscape features.
Main Methods:
- Surveyed 939 physically active older adults across 66 community parks in Chongqing, China.
- Employed a mixed-methods approach.
- Reorganized the hierarchical/negotiation model, defining latent variable order and integrating landscape characteristics.
Main Results:
- Serious leisure is driven by constraint negotiation, with structural constraints preceding intrapersonal and interpersonal ones.
- Older age, higher socioeconomic status, and park location in mountainous areas correlated with increased negotiation difficulty.
- Seven structural constraints were identified, with nonlinear relationships between constraints and landscape characteristics due to varied preferences.
Conclusions:
- Age-friendly renewal requires targeted strategies like improved accessibility, diverse facilities, and optimized spatial design in community parks.
- Preserving distinctive landscape characteristics is essential alongside urban renewal efforts.
- Findings offer practical insights for similar cities, promoting healthier and more inclusive urban environments for older adults.
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