“Residential Improvement Undertaking” and Communityness

-A case study at A-chiku in Kobe-shi-

Abstract

An aim in this paper is to find out a subjective fact which basically makes the construction of communityness around the “collective means of consumption” possible. It willl be derived from a case study of “residential improvement undertaking” which has continued since 1969 at A-chiku in Kobe-shi.
In conclusion through the case study at A-chiku, the possibility and the importance of re-understanding on communityness from a level of subjective-analysis into the residents can be pointed out. And based on this analytical viewpoint, the problem of generalization through many individual community-theories which forms an important issue in the latest Urban Sociology will be realized little by little.