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We need to move toward a sense that community building let the living values of residents grow up through the common and three types of ecology (environmental, social and spritual). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate, the community design contest held in Setagaya ward and Minamata city from this view point of living value. Through community design contest the activities for the community building and various expressions of living environment by picture maps and so on were presented. Residents expressed their various living values for examples, learning with pleasure, existence with nature, soft environmental management and so on. And it was ascertained that picture map is effective means for fostering living values of residents.
