Relationship between diversity of activities in urbanparks and interaction in the local community.

Abstract

An online questionnaire survey was conducted among residents in Koto ward, to investigate the relationship between diversity of activities in urban parks and the level of social interaction between individuals in the local community. As a result, we found that diversity of activities could be classified into five clusters: low use cluster, walking cluster, common cluster, active cluster, and diversity cluster. Furthermore, we showed that the more the diversity of activities in urban park clusters, the significantly higher the sociability, social capital and civic pride of the cluster. Additionally, the level of social interaction could be classified into three stages.