Author(s)

Yufei Wang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Faculty of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China

Corresponding Author

Yufei Wang

ABSTRACT

Renewal of old residential communities is an important means of improving the living environment in the stage of urban stock development. A scientific and operational livability assessment framework provides a basis for identifying renewal deficiencies, defining renovation priorities, and examining implementation outcomes. This review synthesizes research on livability assessment frameworks for old residential communities, with emphasis on assessment concepts, dimensional composition, indicator systems, data methods, and practical application. Research has expanded from early physical assessments focused on housing quality, infrastructure, and environmental remediation to comprehensive assessments that incorporate public services, public space, residents' perceptions, social relations, and community governance. The integration of multi-source spatial data, street-view imagery, and resident-satisfaction surveys has improved the granularity and dynamic capacity of assessment. Existing studies continue to face fragmented indicator systems, insufficient integration of objective and subjective evidence, difficulties in cross-scale conversion, and limited contextual adaptation. Future work should establish a multidimensional framework centered on environmental quality, service accessibility, residents' perceptions, and governance and maintenance, and develop an application loop of assessment, diagnosis, optimization, and feedback to provide more targeted support for the renewal of old residential communities.

KEYWORDS

Old residential communities; Livability; Assessment framework; Indicator system; Residents' perceptions; Urban renewal

CITE THIS PAPER

Yufei Wang. A Review of the Livability Assessment Framework for Urban Old Residential Communities. Social Security and Administration Management (2026). Vol. 7, No. 1, 70-75. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/socsam.2026.070109.

REFERENCES

[1] Li J, Guo B, Gong Q, Sun Y, Yao H. (2024) Evaluation of the regeneration efficiency of old residential neighborhoods from the perspective of residents’ satisfaction based on the superefficient BCC-DEA model. J Hous and the Built Environ, 39, 1709–1747. 
[2] Sun S, Chen R, Qin S, Liu L. (2022) Evaluating the Public Participation Processes in Community Regeneration Using the EPST Model: A Case Study in Nanjing, China. Land, 11, 1405. 
[3] Jacobs J. (1961) The death and life of great american cities. New York: Random House. 
[4] Lynch K. (1960) The image of the city. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[5] Lefebvre H. (1968) Le Droit à la Ville. Paris: Éditions Anthropos. 
[6] Healey P. (1997) Collaborative planning: shaping places in fragmented societies. London: Macmillan.
[7] Komeily A, Srinivasan RS. (2015) A need for balanced approach to neighborhood sustainability assessments: A critical review and analysis. Sustainable Cities and Society, 18, 32–43. 
[8] Hu Y, Zhang Y, Xia X, Li Q, Ji Y, Wang R, et al. (2024) Research on the evaluation of the livability of outdoor space in old residential areas based on the AHP and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation: a case study of Suzhou city, China. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 23, 1808–1825. 
[9] Gehl J. (2011) Life between buildings: using public space. Washington, DC: Island Press.
[10] Mouratidis K, Yiannakou A. (2022) What makes cities livable? Determinants of neighborhood satisfaction and neighborhood happiness in different contexts. Land Use Policy, 112: 105855. 
[11] Higgs C, Alderton A, Rozek J, Adlakha D, Badland H, Boeing G, et al. (2022) Policy-Relevant Spatial Indicators of Urban Liveability And Sustainability: Scaling From Local to Global. Urban Policy and Research, 40, 321–334. 
[12] Lowe M, Whitzman C, Badland H, Davern M, Aye L, Hes D, et al. (2015) Planning Healthy, Liveable and Sustainable Cities: How Can Indicators Inform Policy? Urban Policy and Research, 33, 131–144. 
[13] Chen N, Fang D. (2024) Exploring Public Space Satisfaction in Old Residential Areas Based on Impact-Asymmetry Analysis. Sustainability, 16, 2557. 
[14] Yuan W, Mu X, Jiao J, Li D and Li J. (2024) How to Enhancing Urban Space Renewal Through Visual Landscape Perception? An Approach From Street View Image Recognition. Social Indicators Research, 175, 659-686.
[15] Li Z, Zhao Z, Zhang T. (2024) Livability evaluation of urban environment based on Google Earth Engine and multi-source data: A case study of Kunming, China. Ecological Indicators, 169, 112968. 
[16] Huang X, Liu Y. (2022) Livability assessment of 101,630 communities in China’s major cities: A remote sensing perspective. Sci China Earth Sci, 65, 1073–1087. 
[17] Xi J, Yang X, Jiang H, Cai Z and Qu Z. (2026) Ex post evaluation of regular old residential community renovation projects: empirical evidence from Nanjing, China. Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 0, 1–16. 
[18] Zhao J, Abdul Aziz F, Cheng Z, Ujang N, Zhang H, Xu J, et al. (2024) Post-Occupancy Evaluation of the Improved Old Residential Neighborhood Satisfaction Using Principal Component Analysis: The Case of Wuxi, China. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 13, 318. 

Sponsors, Associates, and Links

---

• Information Systems and Economics
  
  
• Accounting, Auditing and Finance
  
  
• Industrial Engineering and Innovation Management
  
  
• Tourism Management and Technology Economy
  
  
• Journal of Computational and Financial Econometrics
  
  
• Financial Engineering and Risk Management
  
  
• Accounting and Corporate Management
  
  
• Population, Resources & Environmental Economics
  
  
• Statistics & Quantitative Economics
  
  
• Agricultural & Forestry Economics and Management
  
  
• Social Medicine and Health Management
  
  
• Land Resource Management
  
  
• Information, Library and Archival Science
  
  
• Journal of Human Resource Development
  
  
• Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  
  
• Operational Research and Cybernetics