Abstract
This study wad undertaken to find out the basic problem in the attitudes of inhabitants to urban open spaces.
A social survey was carried out at 8 open spaces with apartment houses built under envirormental total design cord in Yokohama city from Oct. to Dec, 1994.
The interview data of 289 inhabilants lived in the apartment houses and 249 inhabitants lived around the houses were collected.
The differance of attitudes to open spaces between apartment inhabitant and around inhabitant were shown.Especially about 30% of around inhabitants had low cognition of reason why the open spaces were designed, the feeling of unkindness and hardly frequent use rate.
