Comparison of Natural Landscape Preferences and Enlightenment under the Background of Social Aging

As China has been facing an aggravating trend of aging population, how to adapt to the special environmental needs of an aging society will be a new perspective of community construction and landscape planning in the future. Taking Fujian Province as an example, this paper, based on large-scale on-site questionnaires, analyzes the effects of residents’ age and place attachment on their preferences for natural landscape. The results indicate that: 1) Age has a significant effect on natural landscape preference, but place attachment leaves no significant impact on this aspect. 2) The “weak” cognitive characteristics of the elderly (over 60 years old) and children (6~9 year olds) lead to lower natural landscape preference with the two groups, showing the return of the elderly to “childhood”. 3) The natural landscape preference of the young people (15~19 years old) and the middle-aged people (20~59 years old) are significantly higher than the elderly and children, and the young people show the highest preference in particular, which may be a result of the educational level and the background of the times. The results of the study are of guiding significance to the rational improvement of community landscape planning, design and management in the background of social ageing.