ANALYSES OF INHABITANTS' USES AND EVALUATIONS BASED ON A WAY FROM DWELLING FOR RECREATIONAL GREEN-WATER PLACES IN URBAN AREAS

Abstract

Recently, recreational green-water places have been constructed in several urban areas. The purpose of this study is to investigate what these places exert influence on the inhabitants around there. Therefore we executed questionaires to the inhabitants around the five green-water places that we had selected, and analysed inhabitants' recreational uses and evaluations of these places from the viewpoint of a way between these places and their dwelling. The results of this study are as follows: 1) The characteristics of recreational uses - for example the time duration of the stay, the frequency of visits and so on - closely related to a way. Namely, when people live near the place, they visit to that place frequently for the purpose of a short stay represented by walking. On the other hand, when they live away from there, they rarely visit to that place but stay there for a long time, in this case the purpose of their uses is to play for swimming or fishing. 2) As for the relation between evaluation and a way, in case of large place, both the individual and compre-hensive evaluation is unrelated to a way, but in case of small place, a way makes some differences on evaluation. One of the reason of these differences is that inhabitant's consciousness for the places depends on a way in case of small place. 3) From relation between characteristics of uses, evaluations and phisical indicies of the places, in case of a short way, frequency of visiting a green-water place is related to the evaluation of the place, but in case of a long way, the frequency is related to the scale.