This study focused on the natural growth process of forming six coastal villages for the purpose of gaining a spatial understanding of how residents perceived distance between themselves, which is a component in the inherent self-regulating order of the villages. In the types of fishing industries and processes of becoming villages, the results indicated that villages with higher ratios of fishing production tended to form denser territorial communities with mutual support functions. In this spatially-organized system supporting these industries, it was found that buffer zones were situated within the residential area by appropriately assessing the conditions of the neighboring environments so that high-density living environment conditions were alleviated. In addition, observation of production, living, and exchange activities in outdoor spaces enabled a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the crowding states of the entire village space by how distance was perceived in terms of residential, clustering, and environmental units.
