2020 Volume 75 Issue 6 Pages I_317-I_327
In recent years, city centers are declining along depopulation and suburbanization in local cities in Japan. This study aims to examine relationships between pedestrian flow and spatial configurations of streets based on the structures of street networks and land use in city centers. We assume that improvement of the quantity of total floor space along a street has a certain relationship not only with pedestrian flow volume in the own street but also with that observed on the neighbor streets, which is directly connected to the street in the street network. As a result, pedestrian fow volume shows significant positive correlation both with the amount of commercial floor space along the street and with that along the neighbor streets. This result suggests that an improvement of floor area of commercial facilities in directly connected streets should be an effective means to encourage activities in city centers.
