Abstract
This reserches has purpose to make clear the way that purchase facilities should be in new town, especially, necessity of neighborhood-center and its conditions. In this paper, we studied the structure of use with purchase facilities and necessity of neighborhood-center through the investigation with residents (housewives) at KOYO NEW TOWN in HIROSHIMA pref. The results of analysis are summarized as follows. 1) The daily purchase demand of housewives is filled largely at purchase facilities in new town as compared with out of new town. Each residential section has its own rate of dependence to purchase facilities in new town, and this rate is large in A1 and A2 residential section which is near Area-center relatively. 2) It is feature of form with use to neighborhood-center and Area-center that the rate with use in one side is few, and many use property to both sides at a fixed rate of frequency in use. 3) A frequency in use with neighborhood-center is higher at course 「1」 in conditon of course, and 「inside ・ inside」 in condition of distance than the others. This fact shows that user takes a serious view of "nearness" to purchase facilities when using to them, in short, the neighborhood-center is used at a fixed rate in compliance with spatial conditions and even in this conditions that neighborhood-center is scanty compared with Area-center. 4) 2 steps-compositions of purchase facilities in KOYO NEW TOWN doesn't function necessary well by one center system was taken.
