The walkable level of the urban built environment plays an important role in promoting green and healthy way of walking and improving the quality of daily life. The research of walkability measure methods are very popular in both domestic and foreign academia. According to the main factors influencing the walking behavior, we compared the methods of walkability measure in three aspects: perception of walking environment, walking spatial accessibility and the social and cultural factors. It’s found that these three methods have both advantages and disadvantages. It suggests that it should carry out the deepening research on the improvement and promotion of walkability measure methods, classify the research population precisely and improve the accuracy of measure according to the characteristic of domestic built environment and the behaviors of residents. Meanwhile, considering the subjective feelings of pedestrians and the social and cultural factors, it should construct a comprehensive walkability measure method and evaluation system for the urban built environment which includes walking accessibility, convenience, comfort, safety and other aspects.