Study on relationship between amounts of resident's behaviors and characteristics of physical environment in streets of densely wooden build-up areas

Abstract

In recent years, the narrow streets in densely wooden build-up areas have problems from the viewpoints of disaster prevention. On the other, such streets provide the place for activities and communications, the comfortable life, thus the good points of such streets should be considered in the redesign. Therefore, this study aims at revealing the physical environments of the streets having such good points in Kayashima-higashi neighborhood, Neyagawa. Actually, the relationship between amounts of behaviors and the physical characteristics of the streets are analyzed. As a result, they are influenced by the physical environments of the streets such as the topological structure, the street width and surrounding land-use, moreover they affects resident's evaluation.