The influence of urban built environment on residents' physical activities has been a hot topic of multidisciplinary research in public health, preventive medicine and environmental science at home and abroad. Improving public health by promoting residents' daily physical activity has been confirmed by numerous studies. This paper summarizes the existing research and refines the existing research progress of the built environment and physical activity from different research perspectives. Through a summary and induction of relevant literature, this paper analyzes the core elements of the built environmentinterms of behavior characteristics, social attributes, and a specific body perspective.Finallyit points outthe future research directions.

physical activity  /  built environment  /  crowd behavior  /  social attribute  /  physical characteristics