| Title |
Residential Outdoor Environment and Children`s Social Behavior |
| Abstract |
Image archives(pictures, paintings, and illustrations) showing outdoor environment and children's play in early residential settlements, before l960s, were analyzed in order to understand the relationships of environmental characteristics and children's social behavior. A total of l49 images, along with relevant articles and writings, were collected from the secondary historical sources such as travelogs, painting collections, newspapers, photo albums, and child literature. Multi-step content analysis of these selected data showed that children in early residential environment tended to play in a similar-age, same-sex group. They tended to make specific outdoor places into play territories and to show different glay patterns depending on group characteristics and environmental properties of the territory. The study indicated the significance of outdoor environment as a children's sociaI importance of individual role, cooperative play, and social rule. This historical analysis provided some practical implications for site design of the present cases of residential developments |