Abstract
This study is to explicate objectively Space-consciousness of street spaces (Psychological-analysis), to develop a method how to describe the street spaces quantitatively (Physical-analysis) and more over to obtain relation formulas between the result of Psychological-analysis and physical-analysis (Correlation-analysis). In this paper (part I) as the first step of this study, the result of psychological-analysis of street spaces is presented. First, we selected twenty-seven streets in Tokyo and Kyoto district out of many streets we investigated. Twenty-seven streets are classified into seven street types such as Shopping street, Residential street, Office street and so on. we chose the method to show the color panoramic photgraphs of streets rather than the method to show the real streets to subjects. Second, twenty-seven bipolar adjective phrases that express the feelings of street spaces such as good or poor quality feeling, interesting or uninteresting feeling were determind. The mean-values and the standard-deviations of twenty-seven bipolar adjective phrases related to each street space were calculated with Semantic-Differential analysis method on the basis of thirtytwo subjects test data. Consequently, the following characteristics of street spaces were made clear. Shopping streets (HARAJYUKU, GINZA area etc.) make people feel very noisy, restless and a little green but lively. Residential streets (HIROYAMA, SEIJYO area etc.) make people feel quiet and yet stagnant. Last, the factor-loadings and the Factor-contributions of twenty-seven street spaces were obtained by Factor-analysis (Direct-Varimax) method. As a result, thirteen psychological-factors of street spaces were chosen based on the analyzed factor-loadings and factor-cotributions. The analysis showed that the most important factor is Design-factor, the second is Urbanity-factor and the third is Open-factor among thirteen factors.
