Twenty-first International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

Urban stormwater parks are designed with ecological functionality as the primary focus. This paper investigates the social benefits of urban stormwater landscape, assessing feedback from various users through the establishment of evaluation models, field surveys, comparative park analyses, and mathematical modeling analyses. The aim is to provide insights for optimizing the design benefits of urban stormwater parks. This study selects Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua, Zhejiang, a typical urban stormwater park in China, as the case study for evaluation research and introduces the traditional park, Wuzhou Park, for comparison. The results show that Yanweizhou Park, designed with ecology as the first principle, still receives high praise in terms of social performance, with people perceiving stormwater parks as better representing the city’s image. Stormwater parks are more popular among young people and facilitate more dispersed activities. However, both types of parks suffer from insufficient basic infrastructure.