A STUDY ON THE PLANNING UTILIZATION BASED BY THE SPATIAL COGNITION OF MENTAL EVALUATION

The mental image of residents in a certain community means the result of which residents have mentally judged on their region through the long period. Identifying the community image means the appreciation of mental structure; therefore this intention includes actively complying with the citizen opinion in the planning process. However, the judging result of metal cognition has not been identified in terms of spatial structure; the mental result could not play an important role for planning utilization. Hereupon, this study sueeests the method of spatial cognition and contemplates the utilization scheme for community planning. The analyses have operated through out the Spatial Statistics and GIS based on the questionnaire over three site of Tokyo Metropolitan Area from September to December in 2002. Consequently, the first result reveals the regional characters by spatial distribution. Secondly, the mentally homogeneous area could be identified as an important planning element through out investigating the distribution scale of spatial cognition by using Spatial Statistics.