The results of this study showed that the participants highly recognized the benefits of urban parks in enhancing the aesthetic of urban landscape, providing the public with a social setting, ensuring the quality of urban environment, and maintaining urban ecology. The results are slightly different from past findings (Hsieh, 1998; Tsai; Wang and Tseng, 2003), which can be explained by the effect of Taiwanese government’s active promotion of environmental education since 2001, and the enactment of the Environmental Education Act in 2011 (Environmental Protection Administration, ROC, 2012). After these actions, Taiwanese people were more likely to possess knowledge of the importance of environmental sustainability and natural ecology, and agreed more on the urban parks’ functions of sanitation and ecological conservation. These changes are in accordance with the more recent findings of Liu and Hsieh (2009).