Abstract
The inner area of Kyoto City sampled for this study has survived keeping the spacial proximity between working and housing based upon traditional vernacular small industries such as dye works called Yuzen. In recent years, communities in the inner area has become unstable and some of them have been collapsing due to retrogression of small industries and decrease of population. On the contrary, cases of building renewal have become larger in number, and certain cases have influenced on long-established communities in a suffering way, occurring social problems in the inner area. At the same time, these recent changes of building have been stimilating inhabitants' resisting movements. This study aims to investigate how a future arrangement for neighborhood districts should be in consideration of job and house proximity, from a view-point of the cooperating argument process between inhabitant and specialist. One of the typical neighborhood districts within the inner area is Mukadeyacho, that has perticipated in Ghion Maturi Festival with the float called Minami-kannonyama, which is sampled in this study. In Mukadeyacho, traditional wooden city houses have been rapidly replaced by concrete buildings which have accordingly brought inharmoneousness in townscape. This study made clear that one of the most serious problems is dying out of alleies which have formed neighborhood unit with the traditional alley-street pattern. The alternative plan for replacing proposed against a scheme of some private developer in a way of inhabitant's perticipation has offered the other finding that the reduction of present regulation levels to height and volume to lot of building is needed to bring a desirable harmony in Mukadeyacho's townscape.
