Research on Transformation Strategies of Outdoor Activity Spaces in Old Communities of State Owned Enterprises Based on Aging Adaptability Concept ——Take Xianyang North Road neighbourhood in Tianjin as an example

Nowadays, China's population aging has became a phenomenon, showing a trend of increasing and accelerating. Tianjin is a typical aging city in China. The total number of elderly people in the community of Xianyang North Road Street in Tianjin is as high as 30%. Tianjin was originally dominated by the state-owned economy. Since the 1980s, it has undergone compulsory revolution of state-owned enterprises and has greatly affected the lives of its employees. The elderly residents of Xianyang North Road Street Community are mostly former state-owned enterprise employees. The community construction which is a typical Chinese state-owned enterprise old life community has the characteristics, the lack of leisure activities and low grades, of workers’ new villages in the 1980s. Living in such a community environment, the elderly are not easy to reduce psychological pressure through outdoor activities, which is not conducive to physical and mental health and social stability. Therefore, this study attempts to conduct a detailed investigation of the outdoor activity needs of middle-aged and elderly residents in the old-life communities of state-owned enterprises, and proposes targeted strategies for the adaptation of the elderly of outdoor activity spaces in such communities to alleviate the dissatisfaction of the elderly and maintain social stability. In this study, a random sampling method is used to conduct observations and in-depth interviews with 13 elderly people aged 60 years and over in the community of Xianyang North Road. The results of the study find that the development of the public activity space in the community seriously lags behind the aging rate. The elderly are very concerns about the safety and comfort of the public activity space, but the status quo public activity space has hindered its activities .The main problems are unreasonable location distribution, old and insufficient facilities, inadequate facilities and the lack of management and maintenance. For the above problems and analyze the reasons, this study proposes strategies from the aspects of activity route planning, space composite utilization, on-demand facility support, management and operation innovation and so on, with a view to providing decision-making reference for transformation of outdoor activity space, and further improving the satisfaction and well-being of middle-aged and elderly residents in the old-life community of state-owned enterprises.