Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
This article aims to study conditions of studio and housing which artists demand for their practice and production and based on this, to analyze policies that attract artists. From the analyses, we found the following tendencies. 1) Affordable rental fee for both studios and houses, and their easy traffic access are both preferred for all kinds of genres. 2) The demand on the studio varies depending on the type of arts. 3) Urban and cultural atmosphere were both preferred for housing. Based upon these results, we compared the policies of four major cities (Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe) that aim to attract artists to their areas and found there are no links between the foothold and residential area of those artists, and consequently holistic policies are lacking.
