Research on maintenance consciousness of store owners in setting up planting spaces around stores from the perspective of territory

In future city planning, it is necessary to consider not only the hardware aspect but also the inner aspect of consciousness in order to properly maintain and manage the space. The purpose of this study is to clarify the following; 1.Creating and demonstrating a comprehensive awareness index for territorialization behavior. 2.Clarify the difference and direction of consciousness between those who perform maintenance around the store and those who do not. This study takes the consciousness of the store owner who set up the planting space as an example. Therefore, response data was obtained by directly distributing and collecting data at the three shopping streets in Gunma. Through the research, following were clarified; 1.It was proved that “Interest in greening”, “Secure feeling in the social field”, “Consciousness of city planning”, “Effect of policies”, “Resistance to others”, and “Resistance to activities” are related to the comprehensive consciousness index of territorialization behavior. 2. There was a difference in six consciousness between those who performed maintenance around the store and those who did not. Considering the values, it seems that the direction from those who do not do to those who do is to raise consciousness of “ Consciousness of city planning”