Abstract
This is the third report of the several series of investigations on the function of housing estate in human life. The purpose of the research is the same with the one mentioned in the first and second reports. This time, actual survey was done to the people in two groups living in 52 houses and 150 dwelling units in "slab type" flats at Furuichi-Estate, Osaka during November and December in 1962. Some of the results of the research are as follows : 1) Social contact in neighbourhood is dominant as for wives compared to her whole contacts, while it is not so as to husbands. 2) Much contact in neighbourhood is rather done in the private houses or dwelling units than in public facilities such as a meeting room, assembly-hall etc. 3) Most of the husbands attend the offices in their own city, e.g. Osaka in this case. 4) People do their daily shopping not only in the housing estate area but in the shopping street of the suroundings. But, they get extensive and hobby goods at the department store in the center of their city. 5) People spend the most of leisure time in their own private houses. In this meaning, the houses or dwelling units should also be designed for these leisure time. 6) People have, so to say, a feeling of "community" for the housing estate areas.
