Abstract
It is important for infants to be properly stimulated by the environment. We can expect that infant" s development is influenced not only by the mental environment, especially mother, but also by the physical one. This paper is a report that analyzes physical variables of 18 housing proiects and its investigation data. As the result of this, the following points are confirmed. 1. The physical character of housing projects is composed of density, scale, dwelling scale, and so on. 2. The physical character of high-rise apartments is made up by scale, shared space, and so on. 3. Mother' s evaluation of residential environment is explained by 10 factors on dwelling, apartment and housing project. 4. The mother's evaluation relates to the physical characteristics, especially, it differs between suburbia and urban areas.
