**5. Conclusions**

Community greenways, which is next to or pass through high-density residential areas, is one kind of greenways that is most closely related to people's life. This study attempts to identify the use of community greenways. The activities in community greenways include commuting, walking the dog, shopping, exercise, fishing, enjoying sceneries, reading, relaxing, interacting with neighbors or family members, which can be divided into necessary activities, optional activities and social activities. From the results, necessary activities and optional activities are the main activities, and are also the most obvious improvements that the community greenway brings to residents' life. Community greenways have two main characteristics: everydayness and public nature. The everydayness is due to its convenience to the nearby communities and high frequency of use. The public nature means that community greenways are inclusive for different users and activities. The results show that, demographically, there is not much difference in the proportion of various groups of users. Community greenways contribute to social equity especially in developing counties as residents can equally enjoy the open space. The users are relatively satisfied with the community greenway as a space for daily transportation, recreation, social interaction and so on, while some lacks also arise from the evaluation from the users. The main lack is service facilities. The results imply that it is a reason that constrains social connections. Therefore, to give full play to the advantages of the community greenway, urban planners and landscape designers should give more attention to the above aspects. If these problems can be effectively communicated and resolved, community greenways will better serve the life of residents.

**Author Contributions:** W.C. and G.L.; Data curation, W.C.; Formal analysis, W.C.; Funding acquisition, G.L.; Investigation, W.C.; Project administration, G.L.; Software, W.C.; Writing—original draft, W.C.; Writing—review and editing, G.L.

**Funding:** This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51678242 and No. 51761135025).

**Acknowledgments:** Many thanks to the help from Jiacheng, Li who majors in mathematics, and Jing, Wu, and Tianyu, Gao, friends who give suggestions to clarify and improve the paper. Their effort was highly appreciated.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
