Residents' Psychological Evaluation of Mixed Land Use in Residential Areas

Abstract

This study examined people's attitudes toward mixed land use in residential areas, through a questionnaire survey administered to 1,259 residents in Tokyo and Kashiwa-city. As the distance to facilities became longer, people became less satisfied with the travel behavior. The effect of distance was larger for travel to work and hospital, and smaller for travel for shopping and recreation. The level of satisfaction with travel behavior was correlated with that with daily convenience. The degree of acceptance of mixed land uses in residential areas was affected by human values to a larger extent than by residential and physical attributes. It was also positively correlated with the level of travel satisfaction, indicating that people who were less satisfied with travel behavior did not want corresponding facilities to be located nearby. Implications of the results for urban planning in shrinking cities and the necessity of considering residents' psychological attributes are discussed.