Host: Center for Environmental Information Science
Pages 237-240
Nowadays, citizens living in urban areas are interested in allotment gardening. The citizens engaged in allotment gardening have been entrenched as one of their recreation or leisure activities. In order to manage allotment gardens as amenity space for urban residents, it is necessary to develop the gardens on user's needs. In this study, we conducted the questionnaire survey with urban residents, engaged in allotment gardening in Atsugi city, to reveal their characteristic focusing on the purpose. As a results, it appeared that there had been three purpose; 1) to communicate with other gardeners, 2) to get their mental health and 3) to improve their gardening skills. Furthermore, the gardeners could be divided into three groups, and each groups had different strengths for those three purpose. In order to enhance the allotment gardening, it is important to offer more appropriate supports for these three groups respectively.
