2013 Volume 69 Issue 5 Pages I_275-I_281
The life in our country has changed because of motorization, the change of the lifestyle, etc. As a result, the location of commercial and public services have changed and made it difficult to go shopping and using public service within walking distance for everyday life. Issues should be solved in our country where the aging society is going on. In this research, changes between the location of commercial and public services 40 years ago and the present are clarified from the point of within easily walking distance for elderly persons in the Tsukuba area which is maintaining the traditional colony form on Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki prefecture. The conclusions from a quantitative analysis show the number of them decline notably in central colonies which once have played the important role for everyday life. It is also clarified that service contents in other colonies have also changed.
