Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to classify the wooden apartment areas (the wards or cities in which the wooden apartment house holds form more than 25% of the whole) to clarify improvement strategies. The feature of the areas in Tokyo and Osaka is summerized as per the following ; 1) In Metropolitan Tokyo, the wooden apartment areas are located in ordinary urban residential districts. Two kinds of locations can be found and the more densely populated ones are more serious. These areas are considerably widespread and the apartments are relatively equally dispersed among the detached houses. The manner the wooden apartments gather together can be described as "dispersed condition type". Therefore an individual renewal strategy for each wooden apartment is mainly needed. 2) While in Osaka Prefecture, there are three kinds of locations. One is "tenement districts" and another is "industrial". Both are located in Osaka City. An almost "dispersed condition type" situation can be found there, however, they need a more general improvement strategy adapted to each area's problems. The other kind of location in Osaka is "the urban sprawled areas". They are located in four cities near Osaka City and "massed condition type" can be found. Sometimes 100 or 300 apartments are grouped together in one place. A strategy for these areas should aim at improving the wooden apartments, as a group.
