Current Status of Shopping Streets and Issues to Be Resolved From the Perspective of Users Consciousness

Abstract

As shopping streets have a variety of characteristics, it would be difficult to uniformly incorporate the concept of "barrier-free" access and universal design. In order to make shopping streets (which are city center environments) into spaces that facilitate their use by anyone, it is extremely important to determine the unique characteristics of each streets from the user's perspective, and to be aware of the trends in barriers as perceived by users. This study examined four shopping streets to determine the barriers that were perceived by users, from the perspective of both building environments and city center environments to gain a basic understanding of problems and issues at shopping streets.