Abstract
The urban amenity is defined as urban space with attractive culture, history, nature, landscape andcommunity, which is peculiar to each city. It may be destroyed by the real estate development or itmay be well preserved. The center district of Kyoto city is being taken up as a case of the amenityproblem. There are some troublesome problems with the preservation of Kyo-machiya (old townhouses in Kyoto), which is confronted with the growing apartments development. This area is theexcellent center of Kyoto in environment for both living and working. But high-density use of the landin this district is being promoted by the rational function of a land market. The necessary system ofreal estate development is proposed in order to preserve the urban amenity.
