Study on Landscape Changes in Time Perspective

Abstract

This study intends to grasp people's cognition of landscape changes in time perspective based on human behavioral approach as basic discussion of landscape palnning and design at low rise housing area. As a case study site, Niwashirodai town house at Senboku New Town, Osaka was chosen and we tried to assess the consciousness of resident and non-resident for landscape change in time perspective of the site by the questionnaire. The questionnaire for residents is composed by 10 items to check the change of image for total landscape and environment at the site in time perspective. And also the questionnaire for non-residents is composed by 10 pair's of sample photpgraphs (1975 and 1982) and 18 pair' s of semantic vocabularies. The study produced the following findings:
1) It was found that quantitative increasing of green elements on common space are concerning with the changes of resident's image for total environment.
2) From the interdependence with cognition of landscape changes and quantitative chages of physical landscape elements, it was clarified that quantitative increasing of green elements are concerned with the cognition of semantic meaning for landscape changes as order, diversity, nature.