Analysis of Residents' Consciousness for Block Park in Local City

Abstract

Many people place their hopes of various roles on the block park in local city which becomes the position of the green and open space as the most familiar park to residents. But, as a matter of fact, most block parks are not used. In this study, residents' consciousness was investigated about the degree of satisfaction of environment and the image for 42 block parks in Nagano city. As a result, from the viewpoint of openness and safety of park, it was found that the establishment of tree and bench is important by using the conjoint analysis of evaluation for the park facilities. As a result of understanding the relationship between the degree of satisfaction of environment for the park and the image evaluation of the park, it was found that the evaluation for the safety has effects upon the synthetic evaluation of the park, and the factor which raises the synthetic evaluation of the park is the openness of the park by using the covariance structure analysis. And residents have little understanding of the activity of volunteer groups and management of the park, therefore it is necessary to produce new volunteer groups through public participation and opportunity for young generation to join planning and management of the park.