| Research Abstract |
City spaces are composed of various elements, such as buildings, streets, plazas, trees, signs, and street furnitures, equipments and so on. The structure of elements which leave a strong impression create the identity and the atmosphere of a city. Extracting the most deliberated of all the elements, which create the particular space, understanding the atmosphere of the city, and revealing the spacial composition from the connection of the 2 are the aim of this research. For that purpose, we have carried out two experiments in seventeen districts along the metropolitan area.
The first is the indication method where we extract elements, which leave impression to people, and the second is the semantic differential method, which allows us to command the city-atmosphere quantitatively.
First, we classified the extracted elements into 4 groups : short-distance, long-distance, distance indefinite. These were analyzed by being put into indication-dot-map.
Then, the elements were assorted by their composition, and typed into 5 groups according to the rate of indication at certain points (indicated element composition-type), to understand their characteristics.
From the psychological evaluation experiment, we identified the varied psychological evaluations of each place. The structure of psychological evaluation towards city space was made apparent by the factor analysis of average of eighteen psychological rating criterions, and by extracting the psychological factor axis. Also, they were divided into 5 groups of sense (consciousness-type). A diagram locating the 2 types on a map was created. This allowed us to compare, and analyze each city.
As a result, it was made clear that the topography of the city, form of streets, various amount of elements are the factors which change the city atmosphere.
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