Correlation of unobserved factors of old town street walkability using SEM: Case study of old southern area, Nanjing.

Heliyon

Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China.

Published: September 2024

Contemporary research on the walking environment focuses closely on the construction logic and internal correlation. Walkability is one of the vital characteristics of the old town street space. To understand how to improve the old town street space effectively, the investigation of the correlation mechanism of street walkability is essential. This study utilizes structural equation model (SEM) to construct a street walkability measurement model composed of four unobserved factors. Then, take Old Southern Area in Nanjing as an example, integrate Depthmap, ArcGIS and Python to obtain multi-source data, and establish a database of observed factors on street space. Finally, the matrix of the observed factors is set by SEM to calculate the correlation of the unobserved factors. This paper provides a novel technical approach for the correlation study of spatial construction logic as well as a reference for strengthening the spatial quality of the contemporary built environment.

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