Changing of Residential Site Use in Historical Urban Area

A Study in Yamatokoriyama in The Process of Postwar Urbanization

Abstract

In this research the modern transformation of historical urban landscape is comprehended in residential site use.
In the castle town Yamatokoriyama the traditional features of townscape have been extinguished in the process of postwar urbanization, and the main points of those spatial changes are as follows:
Spatial changes upon the residential site scale have been occured by individual users to cope with extention of building or established spaces. They were observed concretely as formal changes of nonbuilding space in residential site and as an increase of site for secondary or supporting uses.
In order to continuously hold the land as a property the number of site for temporary uses has increased especially in recent years.
The transformation of residential environment on the regional scale has mainly resulted from horizontal accumulation of both spatial phenomena mentioned above.
Then the changes of landownership and management in the district were examined as one of the social factors which have relation with such spatial changes. And as a result it is pointed out that they have indirectly expendited those spatial changes.