AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE CONSTITUENT AND EXPANSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL COGNITION BY LOCAL RESIDENTS : Existing areas based on space of environmental cognition Part 1

Abstract

It was thought important to focus on the relationship between environmental and human relations with reciprocal action behavior and awareness .In the field of Environmental Psychology,this study considers the relationship between life behavior of local residents, and the expanse of the cognitive area.And grasping Existing Areas of Local Space. Finally,these aim at the development in Planning Methodology of Architecture and Local planning. Concretely, (1) Unit of Space at the frequency of utilizing the space in their production activities.(Behavioral Areas) (2) The relationship between the material constitution of local configuration, the system distinction of the ground and so on, and (the subsistence of the local resident subjects). Further (scene areas) (3) Mental areas have been formed in the relation between consciousness estimation and behavior, corresponded to the construction of the individual social group (consciousness areas).This study considers the possibility of how to plan new areas from existing areas when we grasp on awareness of the three points above.(how the local subjects gain subsistence.)