Urban Residents’ Preferred Walking Street Setting and Environmental Factors: The Case of Chengdu City

To date, most studies on building environments and walking behavior have utilized top-down approaches (e.g., big data or social media data) yet lack bottom-up to verify their findings. Therefore, this study divided urban streets into three main settings (community streets, waterfront paths, greenways) collected from a sample of 411 residents in Chengdu via an online questionnaire examine the impact street environmental factors choice path. It was found that: (1) people with higher levels education preferred water bodies as paths; (2) quality physical aesthetic aspects both had residents’ choices, stronger impact; (3) infrastructures community than other streets; (4) were more concerned about paths greenways. Based these findings, design patterns for are proposed.