no35-41

[41] Role of parks in residential district by physical activity on suburban residential area

○Kaoru Matsuo¹, Sennosuke Matsumoto², Shigeaki Takeda¹, Hiroyuki Kaga¹ (1. Osaka Metropolitan University, 2. KAJIMA CORPORATION)

Keywords:Parks in residential district, Physical activity, Observational investigation

Physical activity in daily life is valuable protection against lifestyle disease. The park is to do physical activity while having fun and safety. This study aims to investigate the role of parks how to contribute people’s health by measuring utilization with the indicator of physical activity in parks in residential district on suburban residential area. As a result, people who use parks with children or friend can do physical activity equivalent to the high intensity of physical activity as soccer or baseball. When physical activity was taken by location, the physical activity in ground zone was almost same with playground but the intensity and time of physical activity was different. People did the high intensity of physical activity at ground zone and the low intensity of physical activity at a long time in playground.