The purpose of this study was to develop an effective questionnair for determinning elements of city image by a trial questinnair based on inhabitant's recognition of domain, and to analyse the image structure of three small cities (Ono, Takayama, and Kameoka) which have historical districts. The result revealed that three types of questions (involving "characteristic feature", "entrance", and "surroundings") were particularly useful. In adittion, we clarified the relationship between an element's imageability in proportion to distance in terms of element's attributes and compered the image elements patterns of inhabitants living in historic and modern districts.
