A study on the consumer’s value consciousness for Kyoto Takase-gawa River

Urban rivers are spaces related to urban planning, and it is necessary to improve urban rivers and its surroundings integrally.In order to make better use of urban rivers, it is desirable for residents to participate in regional planning. Especially, it is said that the waterside plan should be conducted by dwellers living there. The purpose of this research is to clarify the consciousness of dwellers' value to the landscape of the whole river roadside including its surroundings. We conducted a questionnaire survey for people living around the Takase-gawaRiver in Kyoto City. The questionnaires were given to 1,000 houses randomly extracted located 250m from the center of Takase-gawaRiver by using GIS. The questionnaire contains "the use actual situation", "the influence given a dweller by urban river" and "an impression evaluation of the urban river". As a result, it was found that the Takase-gawaRiver and its surroundings are spaces that emphasize life rather than commercial for dwellers. Most of the dwellers evaluated the Takase-gawaRiver and its surroundings positively.However, depending on the age of the dwellers, the purpose of use and the evaluation of the attachment to the Takase-gawa River were different.