2021 Volume 47 Issue 1 Pages 39-44
The purpose of this study is to analyze the actual usage of city parks under the epidemic of COVID-19 from changes in the floating population based on the location information service of mobile phones, and to clarify the factors that lead to the actual usage from the park characteristics. For 21 parks in 3 cities of Osaka, Sakai, and Nagoya, we compared February to September 2020 with the same period in 2019 and explored the relationship between changes in park users due to COVID-19 pandemic and park characteristics. As a result, the use of parks on weekdays tended to increase due to the epidemic of COVID-19. There was a negative correlation between the year-on-year rate of change in the number of park users and the population around the park.
