Abstract
This is the fifth report of several series of investigations on the function of housing estate in human life The purpose of the reseach 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 96 houses and 120 dwelling units in 6 "slab type" flats at Fukae-estate, housing quaters of Kobe Steel-works, during November and December 1963. Some of the results of the research are as follows : 1) Social contact in neighbourhood by the inhabitants is dominant as for wives and a pretty deal as for husbands also, while they develop much social contacts in their office. 2) Much contact in neighbourhood is rather done in the private houses or dwelling units than in public facilities, such as a community hall, assembly-hall etc., Inhabitants have visitors in their home almost every day. 3) 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. 4) People spend the most of leisure time in their own private houses or dwelling units. In this meaning, the houses or dwelling units should also be designed for these leisure time. 5) People have, so to say, a feeling of "community" for the housing estate areas.
