A STUDY ON THE SPACE CHANGE IN HISTORICAL CITY CORE OF LOCAL SMALL CITIES

Abstract

Purpose of this paper is to abstract historical small cities and to clarify the actual feature of space changes in historical core of these cities. We carried out several survey on 4 cities -Ono, Tono, Gosen and Nagai - concerning of building site use in three points through these 30 years. Conclusion are as follows, 1) Space character of historical city core is rapidly changing for the past ten years. 2) Open space and parking space are increasing in most of all districts. 3) There are 4 types of districts according to their real state. They are commerce prior district type, commerce declining district type, residentializing district type and potentially residential district type.