Abstract
The purpose of this study is to make it clear how people perceive the shape of setback of street space. We made perceptual experiments, using the space simulator which enable us to observe scale models from eye level. As a result, the perceived shapes of setback street space could be classified into five types. These are as follows: Uniformity, Swollen, Separated, Pushed, and Divided. And we got diagram of these types. They are determined by physical factors such as the ratio of the depth and the width of the road, the ratio of the frontage and the width of the road.
