Investigation of Children’s Idealized Vision of Natural Surroundings in and around Urban District

Abstract

This paper aimed at measuring children’s idealized vision of natural surroundings in their neighborhood analyzing their drawings in local area. As a result of this study, 3,368 elements were extracted out from children’s drawings, and multivariate analysis revealed that children’s drawings could classify into four types, according to those elements as analysis values. Moreover, natural elements were drawn not only “Nature Oriented Type” drawings but also “Urbanization Oriented Type” drawings, even if many of latter cases were recognized as background elements in urban area. Besides, as a result of comparison among the ratio of natural elements in the investigation area using GIS, it was clarified that children tend to recognize mountain as distant landscape in urban area, and recognize river as a part of living space in urban district.