2004 年 69 巻 580 号 p. 1-8
Public collective housing has been constructed since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake occurred. It is expected to help form good communities especialy for the elderly. However, its effect on the formation of communities has not been clarified. This paper aims to clarify the effect of collective housing on the formation of communities and its factors by analyzing how people in the collective residence and the conventional residence conceive differently of mixing with their neighbors and how they behave in each residence. The results of the analysis show that new communities, along with the previous ones, are formed and communities of the elderly living alone are easily formed.