Urban Context has a complex meaning. It is not a concept bound into one but it is adapted according to its use, atmosphere, and situation, which make the overall image of harmony. Through access relationship with its environment, it can be accepted as a relative concept, not something absolute. Urban space is not built with someone''s personality and creativity in mind, but mutual relationship between various elements and harmony, in other words, the attitude to accomplish adequate harmony is required for implementing the context of urban space.

For this purpose, this study first tries to determine the priority between each type of detailed elements by deriving factors that can recognize the urban context then materializing with previous studies and literature data. Second, among the selected elements, it is applied at destination by using the architectural elements in physical context. Third, based on the existing data from previous research, we examine the differences among ranked elements that are firstly recognized when it is applied at the recognition element rank of derived urban context and its destination.

The city develops along with flow of generation. So in order to look at the changes of urban context, three places(Bongmyeongdong, Gagyeongdong, Sannamdong) from Cheongju general commercial area were selected periodically (1980-2000). Also, in order for element derivation, prioritization, and application of physical context, the survey was conducted by forming 3 stages. 5-point Likert scale was used for deriving the elements and performed content validity ration, reliability, and correlation analysis. In order to prioritize the elements, AHP analysis was performed through pairwise comparison of each element. For applying the elements, the frequency analysis was performed for identifying element preference for each destination and element recognition priority.

The analysis results are as follows.
First, total of 22 elements were selected; 16 physical context, and 6 non-physical context elements. Through previous research, the type of elements can be divided largely into physical context and non-physical context, and the physical context was again broken down into artificial and natural elements. Here, the artificial element was classified more deeply into architectural and urban dimensions.
Second, for the aspects of architectural elements, its priorities were selected in the order of facade, mass, and proportion. The elements from urban aspects are in the order of buildings, open spaces, skyline (artificial), and for the natural elements, the order was landscape, topography, waterfront, and also for non-physical elements, its order was placeness, regionality, laws and regulations. So each showed its first three ranks.
Third, as a result of examining the changes in the Cheongju''s periodic street context, the overall harmony levels were shown in the order of Sannamdong, Bongmyeongdong, Gagyeongdong. Also, through element priorities and destination application derived from the literary data, the identified priorities were examined. In the two analysis, commonly the first place was facade, and the shape was chosen as the second. The building facades form enclosure space, and induce unique and rhythmic walking activity by continuously raising visual changes and unity. In this aspect, rather than the sole building''s facade in street space, facade formed in diverse building forms is said to have more important meaning in terms of urban context.

As a research related to urban context, this study analyzed quantitatively the context elements that were derived in qualitative methods. So this research puts much value that it lead the way with empirical methods by applying literary destination along with research that derived element set and its priority. The progress of this research stopped at extracting the image of urban context through preference identification. However, in identifying the urban context, if future research progresses after adding critical concepts of context that can lead the level of harmony and visual satisfaction, then it is judged that it can play a positive role for urban image by synergy effect on our country''s urban design and landscape; so we put much significance in the information and analysis of this study.