Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze about the barrier-free environment in the future by exemplifying the construction of the residential environment in the Minabe town, Wakayama Prefecture. Child, youth, aged and disabled surveyed and evaluated together into the two different residential environments around JR station. The following are the results. 1) The wheelchair disabled persons have pointed out most of the many barriers. Healthy persons pointed out less. 2) Even if it is the same barrier, the difficulty is different for each disability. 3) Problems contained both physical barrier and intangible. 4) No new barriers were especially found in the two environments. 5) It is necessary to consider not only the solution to the barrier of a non-fixed area but also the solution to the new barriers after improvement and the solution to the intangible problems, and it is important to analyze them synthetically in the future.
