A study on issues of improvement in densely built up area from the view point of elderly residents
A case study of Higashikubo area in Yokohama city
2008 Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 140-143
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2008 Volume 6 Issue 4 Pages 140-143
The purpose of this study is to clarify issues of improvement in densely built up area from the view point of elderly residents and the actual situation of the district. We divided the area according to the town association and studied the area by field survey, interviews, and questionnaire survey.We clarify the problem consciousness of elderly residents.The most important problems are walking environment and disaster prevention.And it was clarified that the elderly who has wide area of the action has high awareness of the issues and the elderly who has narrow area of the action has limited awareness of walking environment issues.
