*4.3. The Service of Community Greenways: Improving the Quality of Everyday Life*

The results show that it is widely believed that the easy accessibility of community greenways increase use, consistent with the conclusions of previous papers on greenways near the residential areas [13,15,49]. Better accessibility attracts people to use the greenway with more frequency, thereby improving people's quality of life by providing a good natural environment and social environment. In this study, users take transportation improvement and more outdoor recreation activities as the two main impacts on life. That is because, community greenways connect neighbors with shopping malls, workplaces so that the daily traffic becomes more convenient. Health benefit brought by leisure activities, physical exercise has been proved to be the most significant contribution to the users [15], and that explains why recreation use is considered one of the important functions by residents [22]. Urban greenways can be seen as the best public spaces for daily leisure, alternative transportation, and for face-to-face communication between residents [15], and from the above analysis, we can say that community greenways play a bigger role in the residents' life.

However, there are some limits of community greenways contributing to the life of residents. The community greenways are often reconstructed on the basis of the original trails. They have limited space but have complex functions at the same time. Therefore, conflicts in activities are prone to occur. For example, the transportation conflicts reflected by residents in the interview. In previous study, residents also expressed concern about community greenways, such as noise and interference caused by people walking the dog [23]. On the other hand, the use of parking lots for residents to exercise also reflects the lack of space for activities. In addition, the lack of facilities has also become a factor limiting residents to use community greenways [18].

Balancing artificial and natural environments in a high-density built environment is a huge challenge [18]. Therefore, the construction of community greenways should take into account the relationship between different activities and meet the needs of residents' activities through the transformation of space and new innovations, so as to give full play to the contribution of community greenways to residents' lives.
