Study on the Cognitive Characteristics of the Greenery Based on Human-Green Contact

Abstract

This study intends to clarify the greenery (landscape) image, cognitive structure and spacial structure which community residents have harbored. The interrelation between human-green contact and intensity of cognition to greenery and also the interrelation between human-green contact and the visual point to perceive the greenery were analized and discussed from the aspect of geographical space. As the result, the following issues were clarified. The intensity of cognition to greenery and the visual characteristic of perception to greenery were impressed with scale and quality and also affected the selection of daily route and distance between resident and greenery.