The purpose of this research is to identify the spatiotemporal characteristics of values of living environment, based on the analysis of housing advertisements within the Tokyo metropolitan area from 1980 to 2010. (1)Firstly the values were sampled as 102 groups based on their meanings, and their tendency of increase and decrease was revealed. (2) Secondly the housings were classified into 7 types and their geographical characteristics were identified. (3)And finally the qualitative changes of the values which reflect the transformation of the center of tokyo metropolitan area were revealed, which were represented as “being high-rised” of housings, “being imageable” of the nature, “being security - biased” of safeties, and ”being individual - biased” of families. At the same time in the whole metropolitan area, “being indoor“ of the comfortableness and diversification of families were also identified.
