Abstract
Urban livability is an important index to measure the comprehensive strength of a city and the level of ecological civilization construction, and is also an important issue to pay attention to people’s livelihood. The study of urban livability is an important content of the sustainable development research of urban environment, economy and society. Kunming, as the capital city of Yunnan Province and the venue of COP15 Conference, has been striving to build an exemplary city in the forefront of ecological civilization construction. As such, Kunming City is selected as a case study of urban livability evaluation. From the five aspects of urban safety, environmental health, convenience of living, travel convenience and residential comfort, the objective evaluation index system and subjective evaluation index system of urban livability are constructed to evaluate the city livability in Kunming. The results show that in recent 5 years, the comprehensive score of objective evaluation of urban livability in Kunming has an increasing trend, and the degree of constructed livability increases year by year. The overall score of livability satisfaction of residents in Kunming city is 4.35, which is between Neither Satisfied or Dissatisfied and Somewhat Satisfied. The top five indexes, from high to low, are: convenience of living, environmental health, residential comfort, urban safety and travel convenience, while the scores of urban safety and travel convenience are lower than the overall resident’s satisfaction score. Finally, this paper comprehensively analyzes the subjective and objective city livability evaluation results and puts forward feasible suggestions to improve livability construction in Kunming, including strengthening the urban road construction, improving the urban safety level, increasing the educational and medical facilities, this will help to keep sustainable development of urban environment, economy and society. The study combines environmental, economic and social sustainable development ideas into urban livability studies, to enrich the study cases of city livability evaluation system, and to provide examples for other cities to follow.
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This study was funded by Yunnan Philosophy and Social Science Research Base Projects (JD2019YB05 and 2018DG005); The program of Yunnan Provincial government-sponsored study abroad in 2019 (File No. 2019003).
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The seven co-authors together contributed to the completion of this article. Junmei Li was the first author on writing-original draft preparation, writing-review, and submission process; Qing Hui, Runqiu Fei, **yu Liu, Ruixue He, **g Zhou contributed to data analysis, the results, and conclusion; Guoqi Qian acted as corresponding author on their behalf throughout writing-review, editing. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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Li, J. et al. (2023). Evaluation of Urban Livability—A Case Study of Kunming City, China. In: Jeon, HY. (eds) Sustainable Development of Water and Environment. ICSDWE 2023. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42588-2_22
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