A Study of How Residents’ Subjective Well-Being Affects the Design of Healthy Sports Parks in Cold Areas

In addition to providing physical and social interaction spaces, Healthy Community Sports Park improves residents’ health and well-being under the influence of COVID-19. Healthy Community Sports Park is the “cell engineering” of a healthy city and the basic unit of a healthy city. Using qualitative observation and questionnaire methods, this paper analyzed two community sports parks with different characteristics in cold areas––one is a newly developed community sports park with perfect facilities, and the other is a park with inadequate facilities for a long time. The relationship between subjective well-being and community sports parks was analyzed by multiple regression with sports space perception and subjective happiness as the dependent variables, diversity, accessibility, park area, and interest in space types in community parks as the independent variables. The results show that: (1) The interest and spatial privacy of the activity facilities in the community sports park are positively correlated with the subjective happiness of residents, and the correlation between accessibility and subjective happiness is insignificant; (2) the spatial richness of water bodies and squares in the park is positively correlated with the subjective happiness of residents; (3) the design elements of the community sports park are related to the activity space and the age group of the user; (4) intelligent facilities show significant differences according to age segments, which are negatively correlated with the subjective satisfaction of people over 50 years old. For this reason, community sports parks should consider the functional needs of all ages, as well as diversity, accessibility, and spatial interest.