Abstract: From the perspective of low-carbon travel, the paper clarifies the relationship between low-carbon travel and urban spatial structure as well as the existing problems of the current urban public sports facilities in China and attempts to propose the principles of planning and layout of urban public sports facilities suitable for urban residents' low-carbon-travel life. The research result shows that the planning of urban public sports facilities should take residential communities as the main scale to construct moderately compact spatial structure with small scale; it should be arranged with other facilities in residential communities so as to construct multipurpose trip chains; slow moving traffic system mainly including POD & BOD should be constructed as the main travel mode inside residential communities while TOD should be proper outside such areas; service contents should be determined based on survey of the the residents in order to take account of different groups' travel ability; the layout mode of "sports facilities within reach for residents" should adopted to ensure low-carbon travel for of the residents' daily physical exercises.

Key words: low-carbon travel, urban community, public sports facilities, planning