抄録
With the progress of urbanization, the public in urban areas has become a group of unconsolidated individuals which merely exist gathering together, each separated as a mass of sand grains. This situation, while supported by the high convenience and efficiency of modern urban system, has brought about a high-degree control of the mass, making the individuals objects of direction. This high-degree mass controlling society is the consequence of the Land reformation project aiming at a still higher productivity, which has also resulted in extensive destruction of living environment. Repulsion toward this situation has taken the form of local inhabitants' movements which base their subjective activities to save the situation on the autonomy of closely communicating regional collective bodies. The appearance of these solid communication groups, though still small in number, can indicate the future of community formation. Providing that this type of regional group with its own autonomous and continuous collective activities is a prototype of community, this research was done in view of finding in the inhabitants' awareness the possibilities of the group's developing into a community and other relating factors for this development. A questionnaire with indices to the discovery of the above factors was used, and the phase of the awareness of dwellers was analysed and considered according to the results. As the result, it was made clear that regional solidarity concerns permanent settlement that is made possible by the material and structural forms and conditions of the dwelling-houses; and that the collective body's subjective activities based upon its regionality help develop the dweller's sense of regional jointness.
