2009 年 61 巻 6 号 p. 528-547
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate long-term changes in residential structure in 20th-century Kyoto City. My research focuses on the three time points of 1911, 1965, and 2005 because of the availability of small area statistics on residents. These small areas under the administration of the Kyoto City Government in the targeted time points are classified into types based on residential characteristics. Comparisons of spatial distributions of the types in each time point reveal the following three characteristics: First of all, while each time point shows sectoral spatial distributions of types in the occupation, the distributions in 2005 do not show this tendency so clearly as before. Second, as of 1965, one can easily recognize a concentric pattern of household size, that is, the closer to the city center, the larger the household. Yet, that changed in 2005, going in the opposite direction. Finally, in the city center, while spatial distributions of the types show clear patterns in 1911 and 1965, the types in 2005 come to form a mosaic pattern. Until 1965, the residential structures had remained unchanged since the late Edo period. However, they changed drastically during the four decades after 1965. In 2005, typical models of intra-urban structures such as sectoral and concentric ones have become irrelevant when one interprets Kyoto’s residential structures.