Exploring the Motivation, Assessment, and Barriers of Participation in Leisure Activity of Waterfront for Urban Residents: A Case Study on Waterfront of Love River in Kaohsiung

Nevertheless, the programming and design for waterfront of cities in Taiwan often put emphasis on physical constructs and neglect the consideration of users’ behavior. It results in a supply-oriented programming and design incapable of taking the differences of users’ characteristics into account sufficiently and of consisting with users’ demand for waterfront.

This study intends to explore the demand behavior including the motivation and assessment of participation in leisure activities of waterfront for users of urban waterfront spaces and the barriers of participation for nonusers. The empirical analysis is conducted by questionnaire-surveying around Love River and other major leisure sites in Kaohsiung City so as to analyze the leisure behavior of participation and the demand for activities and facilities for leisure of waterfront for users and nonusers of Love River waterfront.