We proposed "the Map Pointing Method" that examines type, size and quality of green recognized by residence to evaluate it. A questionnaire survey was conducted for 329 college students chosen randomly who newly moved into Higash-hiroshima city in 1994, and the survey for the same set of respondents was repeated 3 times. We found that recognition of green by the respondents had become wider and more specific with enlargement of coverage of their activity at half a year after their environmental transitions. We considered that the green spaces usually recognized were located in 1,000 meter-radius area from each residence. The green was evaluated based on 4 aspects in this method, view, accessibility, management, environmental conservation. And a result showed that green at park was pointed higher, on the contrast, green at riverside was evaluated lowest in term of its accessibility.
