Abstract
In this paper, we hypothesize that there is a cultural meaning of street space. Images of some street names, such as "Tori" in Japan and "Rue" in France, are analyzed to develop this hypothesis. The street space tends to be built in common by the transportation system in the world according to the motorization. On the other hand, street space is public space of each culture and streets are named "Tori", "Rue" and so on. Iconographic questionnaire is used to take information of street images remembered by some street names selected. For the analysis method, we use visualization of database "Orderable Matrix". As a result, a predominance of walkers in Japan and a predominance of automobiles in France became clear as the characteristic of each culture. In addition, in Japan, the articulation of streets by images is not clearly distinct in comparison with France.
