抄録
A comparative analysis of office development in Japan and the U.S.A. during 1980*5 and 90's indicates the following : 1. A single-node development pattern characterizes the market in Japan, whereas a multi-nodal pattern is peculiar to the U.S.A. 2.The key factor in identifying new development locations in Japan is existing office concentrations, whereas in the U.S.A., indices used in this analysis are irrelevant to identifying the new development locations. 3. The office market in Japan is classified into three categories indicating market conditions : newly forming, slow-growth and matured. The U.S. market has five categories : newly-forming, progressively-forming, growing, growth-controlled and matured.
