Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan
Online ISSN : 2185-0593
Print ISSN : 0916-0647
ISSN-L : 0916-0647
A Study of Important Scenery and the Role on Walking
Eri NishibeJunko Sanada
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2009 Volume 44.3 Pages 43-48

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Walking is regarded as important for a health society in recent years. Tokushima Prefecture promotes continuous walking for health, but does not have any plan constructing walk way which is suitable for walking. It can say that the policy does not correspond to infrastructural project. So this study aimed to clarify that important scenery and its role on walking. For this purpose, the procedure of this paper is following two steps; 1) Clarifying the kind of scenery of walkers who walking everyday. 2) Clarifying the role of scenery at selecting walking area, and the role at choosing walking route. Based on the study above, the following three characters were found: 1) It is problem to walk everyday is walker is weary of the same route and same sceneries. 2) So many parts of walkers have plural routes and prefer changing scenery.
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