Abstract
This study discusses on the significance of Yokohama Municipal Apartment Houses and the Influence upon Tokyo Municipal Apartment houses. Conculusion as follows; (1) Yokohama Municipal office carried out the project of municipal apartment house positively and intended to build the apartment house as the model of housing improvement in japan. Yokohama municipal office thaught that the ideal municipal apartment house was an apartment house with shop in urban district. Yokohama municipal office built four minicipal apartment houses before the Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and realized the ideal apartment houses. These apartment houses were built to solve the housing shortage of unmarried persons and low salaried men. (2) Before the Kanto Earthquake of 1923, there were no municipal apartment houses in Osaka city, Nagoya city, Kobe city and Kyoto city. In Tokyo city, four municipal apartment houses were built before the Kanto Earthquake of 1923. However Yokohama municipal apartment houses were built earlier than Tokyo municipal apartment houses. Then Yokohama municipal apartment houses were progressive project in the age. (3) Tokyo municipal office inspected Yokohama municipal apartment houses. After the inspection Tokyo municipal office changed the project of municipal housing and desided to build an apartment house. The structure system and the builder of Tokyo municipal apartment houses were same as Yokohama municipal apartment houses. Yokohama municipal apartment houses influenced directly Tokyo municipal apartment houses.
