超高層集合住宅における居住者間の交流活性化に向けた近所付き合いの関連要因に関する研究

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 1. Introduction

 In Japan, the number of super high-rise condominiums have been rapidly increasing since 2000 in urban redevelopment areas. Now these condominiums have gained great popularity because of their convenient locations and excellent views. On the other hand, it is necessary to build interaction in the local communities in order to take measures appropriately such as large scale repair of building and disaster prevention.

 The purpose of this study is to grasp residents’ characteristics, their relationships, shared community facilities and residential environment of super high-rise condominiums, moreover, clarify related factors of neighborhood relationships towards activation of residents’ interaction, especially focusing on parents of children and elderlies.

 2. Methods

 We conducted questionnaire survey for residents in nine super high-rise condominiums in Musashi-Kosugi area, Kawasaki city. In addition, we carried out field survey of shared community facilities and on-site outdoor spaces of each condominium, and interview survey to each management association.

 3. Results

 Approximately 80% of the residents have the will to continue living and attached to the local area. Also, approximately 70% of the residents go out over six times a week, 70% of them often talk with neighbors, and 40% of them have relationships with family members in the neighborhood. In addition, we cannot recognize a difference of each characteristic of age group, household members and scale of living space according to the level of floor where each resident live on.

 Focusing on parents of children, the majority of them have active relationships with their neighbors. Especially both their high willingness to participate in the local activities and their high utilization of shared community facilities have correlations to their active neighborhood relationships.

 On the other hand, a certain number of elderlies have conversations with neighbors frequently, however, they have inactive relationships with family members in the neighborhood. Also, some elderly people have high willingness to participate in the local activities, nevertheless, the degree of their willingness to manage in the neighborhood association decline as their ages go up.

 The factors related to the strength of elderlies’ neighborhood relationships are the degree of willingness to continue living, length of conversation time a day, and the degree of attachment feeling to the local area. Meanwhile, most of them don’t use shared community facilities, and there was little correlation between the high willingness to participate in the local communities and the active neighborhood relationships. Therefore, it is estimated that they need much time to form active neighborhood relationships.

 4. Conclusions

 In order to activate the interaction in the local communities, it is necessary for parents of children to enhance use of shared community facilities and outdoor spaces for children playing. Moreover, we consider that it is important to change the rules to make easier to use shared community facilities and to make more safety playground at outdoor spaces. On the other hand, it is important for elderlies to build places to make natural connections through the same interests such as hobbies and to create the opportunities of pleasant activities by using shared community facilities and on-site outdoor spaces.