Abstract
The objective of this research is, to verify the relationships among the characteristics of apartment residents’attitudes toward daily life, activities and others depending on the presence/absence of their attitudes toward settling down in the urban area by conducting the questionnaire and interview surveys of apartment complex residents in the urban area of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to determine whether they will settle down in the urban area (urban apartments), and to obtain the basic knowledge concerning the creation of living environments (urban apartments) based on the characteristics of the region. The results of the research are that the factors influencing the effects on the apartment residents’attitudes toward settling down in the urban area are (1) locational conditions, and physical conditions in living environments, (2) conditions of community with neighboring households, and (3) satisfaction with the nature (greenery, atmosphereand others) in living environments; there are many residents who don’t feel the advantages of cooperative living (cooperative activities, events and others) in living in the apartments but see the relationship among the residents as a problem; and it is important to establish methodology of community design to create diverse relationships among the residents through the participation and cooperation of the residents in creating living environments
