Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, (37) 853-858, Oct 15, 2002 Peer-reviewedLead author
The purpose of this study is to make clear the actual situation of children's nature experience in urban area in comparison between play of rural environment and urban environment. For that, this study tried to make clear rule of rural environment in urban area for children's nature experience. As a comclusion, these following points are revaled. Children are playing taking advantage of the material nature of rural-environment in the urban area .Children are playing taking advantage of a loose change of the space of rural -environment. The conditions on which children play in a rural-environment are that the space has the social characteristic.