Abstract: Through a literature review, this paper abstracts the factors that affect residents’ happiness, including residents’ job, their children’s education, residents’ health and their daily consumption. Then from the perspective of urban planning, this paper deduces urban spatial elements from these factors, including residents’ commuting situation, children’s education conditions, health care conditions and convenience of daily consumption. A relationship network is constructed through 46 valid questionnaires. The relative importance of each element and strength of network relationship is ranked by calculating the node centrality, network agglomeration coefficient and network average density. The strength of relationship between the four urban spatial factors and the happiness of residents is calculated through the merger of similar nodes. The result shows that the correlation between residents’ happiness is related most closely to the convenience of daily consumption, less closely to residents’ commuting situation and least closely to residents’ children’ s education conditions and residents’ health care conditions.

Key words: residents’ happiness, urban spatial elements, social network analysis