The Relation between User's Mental Factors and the Characteristics of Environmental Space in Urban Area

Abstract

Environmental spaces are important for residents to enjoy in daily life and to take refuge in case of earthquake disaster. Therefore spatial planning must be considered with both situation and their consciousness. This paper makes clear the location of space for mitigation and the relation between user's mental factors and these characteristics.Fieldwork and consciousness research concerning natural spaces at Hokusetsu region in Osaka prefecture were done. These characteristics that give influence to users are structured with ISM, and these are classified to hierarchy by area. The districts where new space needed were made clear by the analysis using earthquake hazard map. Above relation is modeled with latent variables that are given factors by exploratory factor analysis model. These relations are analyzed with covariance structure model, and made clear by every hierarchy.