Abstract
This study deals with the resident population fluctuation and housing stock on the viewpoint of population recovery. We examined the trend of population change, the type of house ownership, and the space distribution of population growth area in central wards of Tokyo. There were significant population decreases in most of the areas. Despite this fact, the population has shown increasing trends in some areas, many of them lie adjacent to wide road and are contiguous to the regions where resident population growth was significant in the past. In 1975-85, there were cluster of regions in which resident population increased, but many of them scattered during 1985-90. In 1975-90, the stock of private rental apartments (Min-ei) and company residences influenced the resident population fluctuation in the central wards of Tokyo.There is also a correlation between population fluctuation and housing stock, and it is different according to ocassions of time and region. In view of this, we have to adopt a housing policy and apply it flexibly.
