2021 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 196-203
This study clarifies how those residents have and change their “ibasho” through life changes under the expansion of COVID-19 and living in their home area and obtain suggestions for suburban town planning under infections to increase life satisfaction through analyzing questionnaire surveys and interview surveys in four suburban residential areas of Tokyo metropolitan districts. The results suggest that changes in the type or number of "ibasho" do not affect life satisfaction, but that life satisfaction declines when important "ibasho" are lost due to lifestyle changes such as refraining from going out. In order to increase life satisfaction in the areas under the spread of COVID-19, it is necessary to increase the number of options for living in residential areas and to try to maintain a " ibasho" while integrating real and digital spaces.
