Abstract
Renovating and reforming houses and apartments are now becoming big social movements. In this paper, some part of this movements which are specialized for Nagaya in Osaka-area and Machiya in Kyoto-area are examined. To make the key issues clear, which make renovation of Nagaya and Machiya, movements in Kyoto and the movements in Karahori-area which is called ‘Karahori-club’ are compared.