The decreasing population, declining birthrate and “greying” of society in Japan are very serious problems.
There have been rapid changes in the environment around us in recent years, including an increase in the number of senior citizens and persons (children) with disabilities, a drop in GDP due to the decline in the working population, increasingly diverse lifestyles, and the creation of the “information society.”
Based on societal circumstances in which attitudes toward mutual assistance and mutually complementary relationships have changed, the principle of normalization — enabling each individual to live a normal life to the greatest extent possible — is thought to be of crucial importance.
For this reason, the creation of environments and spaces based on the principle of normalization will be more and more necessary for systematic urban design in the future.
Moreover, the decline of central urban districts has been recognized as a problem, and there has also been a significant decline in the shopping streets that were once filled with vitality.
The creation of shopping street environments that can be used in safety and comfort by as many people as possible — ranging in age from children to senior citizens and including persons with disabilities, families with small children and so on — to live independent lives will be more and more important from now on. It will also be important to determine the current state of shopping streets and the issues that must be resolved, and to use the results to effect modifications and improvements.
This study examined four types of shopping street (neighborhood shopping streets, regional shopping streets, wide-area shopping streets and ultra-wide area shopping streets) in the Kanto region. The shopping streets were the same as in the previous report.
The purpose of the study was to gather basic knowledge regarding the barriers in existing shopping streets (various problems and issues that prevent people from feeling safe and secure, or that inconvenience them and make them feel a lack of user-friendliness) over the passage of time, based on the relationship of people, activities and spaces.
The previous report examined the current status of both buildings (indoor space) and the shopping street (outdoor space), and the issues relating to these spaces, from the standpoint of the operators. It also examined and reported on measures that could be implemented in the future at shopping streets based on the approach of creating environments to enable normalization in shopping streets.
Based on the results of user attitudes and operator attitudes as reported in the previous study, this study compared the attitudes of users and operators to determine and report on the characteristics of the buildings (stores) making up the shopping street and the barriers that are present.
The current state of the building and issues are considered from the standpoint of building access, based on the results of user attitudes as identified in the previous report.
In addition, the current state of the buildings making up the shopping street and issues relating to these buildings, as seen from the attitudes of users and operators, were determined in order to study measures to create an environment for normalization at the shopping street in the future.
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