Abstract
In this study, we examined flats recently built in industrial and semi-industrial areas in the Tokyo-ku area. We studied a supply movement of flats in the Tokyo-ku area and those in industrial and semi-industrial areas in Chapter One. In Chapter Two, we examined the features and the functions of flats located in industrial and semi-industrial areas by making clear (1) the attributes of the dwellers, (2) analysis of former address, (3) concern about house and environment, and (4) intention of permanent settlement through questionnaires to dwellers. In Chapter One, we put information about property supplied in the Tokyo-ku Area by 1984 into data-base by using “A Research of High Rise Housing in the Capital Area” issued by Japan High Rise Housing Association as a material. There were 6,211 apartment buildings and 286,999 living units listed in the whole Tokyo-ku area, while in industrial and semi-industrial areas, 940 apartment buildings and 27,191 living units were supplied. It is recognized that the ratio of supply figures in industrial and semi-industrial areas to that in the whole Tokyo-ku area has been increasing since 1975. In Chapter Two, we collected information through questionnaires given to dwellers of flats sampled from each of the five areas where the amount of household and flat construction significantly increased between 1975 and 1980. Consequently, the dwellers of flats located in industrial and semi-industrial areas were divided into the following two stratums:
(1) The stratum related with the local community.
(2) The stratum which is highly concerned with approaching the center of Tokyo.
The structure of these two stratums differs in each of the five areas. In the area where the former ratio is high, the tendency to regard a flat as an object replacing a house is strong. In every area, the view of the stratum related with local community regarding flats located in industrial and semi-industrial areas is that the dwellers of wood apartments or company-owned dwellings buy flats for the time being, though they wish to own a suburban home in the future, since they can get their own house and higher level of living in a nearby area.
