SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF THE RECREATION SPACE IN EDO

This paper deals with the out-door recreation places, especially focusing on those in the people's residential area. First, various kind of recreation are classified into four categories, and their spatial locations are studied from "Edomeishozue". Second, two aspects of recreation area : extension of excursion are and formation of daily recreation area are pointed out. Third, in examining the literature of traffic in Edo, it is revealed that roads can be considered as potential recreation space in addition to hirokoji, hiyokechi, baba and jishakeidai, i.e. other public space. Last, recreation space in Nihonbashi district is calculated from "Koken-map" and "Tokyo 1/5000 map, Meiji 20", and it is obtained that the out-door recreation space per capita is around 4m^2.