关键词: 儿童, 体力活动, 感知地图, 城中村, 北京

Abstract: In recent years, lacking of children involvement in new district planning or old district renovation, and lacking of understanding of children’s environmental preferences of residential neighborhood made most of the residential neighborhoods not attractive enough for children to be engaged in physical activities. This leads to a series of children’s health problems. This study explored 6?12 years old children’s perception of opportunities for outdoor physical activities in two urban-village neighborhoods in Beijing to promote understanding of the environmental impact on children’s physical activities. Cognitive Mapping reveals that children’s perception of the structure of neighborhood environment includes three models, “activity places & activity path ”, “path” , and “scene”, in which the first model is corresponding to higher level of children’s outdoor physical activities than the others. Poor sanitation and motorvehicles are negative environmental factors which weaken children’s perception of the opportunities for outdoor physical activity. Play and sports facilities, water landscape, flowers and trees, natural pavement and benches are positive environmental factors which promote children’s perception of the opportunity for outdoor physical activity. This research can provide useful information for urban-villages renovation in Beijing and other cities in the future.

Key words: children, physical activity, cognitive mapping, urban-village, Beijing