抄録
The symbols of environmental resources involve peculiar meaning for residents' consciousness of neighborhood environment. An image map technique for public awareness and a psychological assessment technique for iconic sensation are applied to identification of the peculiar meaning of the symbols which residents are specially concerned about and are deeply attached to. By data analyses using semantic differential method and a quantification technique, familiarity with the symbols is extracted as a significant concept apart from imageability, visibility and aesthetic appreciation in impressions of residents. The familiarity in mind of residents is more intensified wi th the passage of the residence time, furthermore as they have experience of knowing more their environment and of voluntary action for environmental betterment, judging from the differences of their attitudes to the symbols among citizens movement participants and non-participants.
