PLANNING HUMAN LIVING VALUES IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING LIVING ENVIRONMENT : A case study of the co-operative housing, 'Ajirogi-yokochoh'

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find out the factors which induce the various human living values in the neibouring environment. It may be assumed that interrelationship between environment and community creates such values. We concerned with the maintenance process in the shared space of co-operative housing 'Ajirogi-yokochoh' where the residents' participation has been made both in the planning and in the management. In conclusion, the sense of community is changeable but one of the factors which renew the satisfactory community is the diverse meanings of socializing in the process of improving the environment.