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The construction of vibrant urban spaces is an important component of humanistic urban development, especially for China's first-tier cities in the context of stock renewal. In response to the lack of quantitative evaluation methods for the emotional attachment between people and the built environment in small-scale urban vitality spaces, this study proposes a new method to quantify the attachment between people and the built environment as an evaluation index of vitality space and thereby evaluate its comprehensive attachment level. The study selected five representative urban renewal vitality complexes in Beijing and Shanghai to demonstrate the feasibility of this method. The study first constructed an emotional attachment evaluation index system for small-scale urban vitality space based on the emotional attachment theory from a multidisciplinary perspective, including 14 indicators describing the degree, dimension, and intensity of attachment to specific built environment characteristics. Secondly, SPSS is used to process and analyze the data of each indicator, and the specific correlation between indicators is calculated to provide support and explanation for the subsequent evaluation results. Then, the TOPSIS evaluation model improved by combining the entropy weight method (EW) and the grey relational model (GRA) was used to calculate and organize the index results, and the evaluation results of the emotional correlation level of the five complexes were obtained. Last but not least, the evaluation results, specific values of each indicator, correlation analysis results, and local observation and interview results were analyzed comprehensively. The preliminary results of the study show that small-scale built environment can effectively promote the vitality of urban spaces by establishing emotional attachment with people. Specifically, the role of material characteristics is highlighted by reinterpreting historical material and structures or introducing new ones, deepening people's emotional experience and promoting spatial vitality through place identity or novel emotional connections. While the non-material characteristics of space are closely related to its material characteristics, their impact on the vitality of space changes dynamically over time and with the surrounding environment. At the same time, this study further expanded the quantitative method framework in the research and evaluation of vitality space, combining the scale method and multi-criteria decision analysis method for mining emotional attachment characteristics and evaluating attachment level. The results not only reveal the built environment characteristics that affect people's emotional experience in urban vibrant spaces in a more scientific and objective manner, but also provides a more humane methodological reference for the renewal, design, management and evaluation of future urban vibrant spaces.
| Keywords | emotional attachment; urban vitality evaluation ; EW-GRA-TOPSIS evaluation model |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | Yes |
