2001 Volume 7 Issue 1 Pages 11-20
This study was conducted to research the following; Relationship between residential environment and assessment. which included six factors: "facilities", "convenience", "physical environments", "residence", "privacy", "situation of community"; Relationship between residential environment, and preference for their community. The subjects consisted of four hundred residents inhabiting the detached houses and the apartment houses in Nakano and Sumida Ward, Tokyo. The results showed as follows: (1) All residents' attributes made significant differences between in the detached houses and in the apartment houses. (2) "convenience" was the highest mean of six factors; "facilities" and "convenience" in Nakano Ward were more highly assessed than them in Sumida Ward; "Residence" in the detached houses was more highly assessed than it in the apartment houses. (3) A lot of correlations among six factors were significant; Correlation between "residence" and residential environment was the highest. (4) Except the result of Sumida Ward, both "residence" and "convenience" had significant effects on residential environment; In Sumida Ward, only a "residence" affected significantly residential environment. (5) Preference for their community was significantly related to residential environment.
