It is speculated that housewives who have more frequent outdoor behaivior around their houses have more consciousness of habitability. To make certain of this speculation, housewives in a middle-rise apartment-house were surveyed by the questionnaire end interview method. As this result, it was demonstrated that housewives who have a higher level of cleaning up (sweeping) entrance yards and using common spaces between apartment-house buildings have a tendency to feel more defensible and comfortable in their both indoor and outdoor lives than others.
Tomoda, H. T. Hiromic. "Outdoor Behaivior and Consciousness of Habitability - the Case of a Middle - Rise Apartment - House Complex." In Environment and Human Action: Proceedings 8th International Conference of the IAPS. IAPS. West Berlin, Germany, 1984.