In recent years, among others while centripetal force of the commercial facility is lost, reproduction of commercial facilities has been required in front of the station square. In the previous paper, we just made the retention behavior in urban space clear. The purpose of this study is to think about the way of the station square with a crowd. Center-north and south which is showing a crowded with people during the day, focusing on the station square, in the residence of the action in the open space, to understand the relationship between the adjacent large-scale commercial facilities. And this study is made the basic study to consider the state of the urban space with a crowd.
Research method is as follows:
1) Observational research
Observational research has revealed the number of action, time, destination by visual observation.
2) Questionnaire research
Interview-type survey has revealed age, companion, and the place of residence.
And the author grasped an environmental condition. As the content number of spot, size, form, capacity, the number of stores within 60m from the spot, distance with the commercial facilities, and distance with the station. From these, the author clarified the following things.
1) Relations of a characteristic and the commercial facilities of the person of stay.
2) The sitting and resting behavior the person of stay according to the space and relations of commercial facilities.
3) Characteristics of the sitting and resting behavior the person who moved to commercial facilities.
The author understood the following things from the result of the research.
1) A lot of the residence's in the center-north tend to move to large-scale commercial facilities.
Features of people is constituted by families of the 40s from the 30s and families with children, staying time tended to move to longer commercial facilities. At that time, it had been carried out behaviors such as chat and play.
2) People in the center-south was a result of controversial strength of the commercial facilities move to each staying location. As a feature of the staying people who move to commercial facilities, as well as center-north, consists of the families of the 40s from the 30s, are conspicuous case of a little remote areas in the residence. The difference is the time and behavior was not observed.
3) The lawn space functions as an amusement place with a child and the parent and because the distance to neighboring commercial facilities is near to 16m at the earliest, from a point having the environment that can move easily. As the characteristic, a lot of stay with the family such as a child and the parent lets a child play in a lawn space and is supposed the case which the parent observes at a bench.
4) By the sitting and resting behavior of the Center-north station square walk space, concentrate on under ten minutes regardless of a destination. It was stay with less than ten minutes in 90% or more of the person of commercial facilities movement in the Center-south station square walk space.
5) Center-north benches continue with a lawn space, there are many sitting and resting behavior such as playing and is observed because a lawn space is united with a bench. In addition, a lot of stay actions including the break are easy to be observed by the functionality of the bench. It is easy to be done a choice enthusiast by the family and can keep the independent environment of the individual. On the other hand, the free place has the characteristic that it is easy to be done a choice enthusiast by a person of one stay.
