Development of residential suburb in the prewrar days of Japan before 1 945 is characterized with proposing new style of houses and daily lives and their residential landscape, in which residents mainly belonged to both the social and economic upper class society at that time. Therefore, those sites developed before The World War II are quite different in terms of physical landscape , and residential culture from those developed after 1960s when the class distinctiveness were becoming disappearing due to the economic boom. The studies of residential suburb in the prewar days are mainly progressing in the disciplines of architecture, town planning and history of business. They pursue the ideas and technical knowledge of the planners who were actually engaged in the construction of the suburban housing sites, clarifying the characteristics of the planning scheme, spatiai patterns of their location, and the physical features of the housing and site planning. Attention is also stressing on the explication of the business manner of land and housing development by railways' companies. Unfortunately, geographical inquiry into this theme is not sufficient. In this paper, the authors preliminary propose the alternative framework for proceeding the geographical study of residential suburb. In this description, we adopt renewed concept of'place' with which many geographers are recently discussing in the forefront of cultural and social geography in the Anglo world. Refering to the recent studies which are mainly focusing on the mediating role of place, this paper clarifies the process of acquiring the meaning of place which is nurtured by the specific residents of elite class living in the resiential suburban site. This meaning grows in the manifestation of the selected status of elite class, production of space which excludes the others and the differentiated mode of specific consumption of the residents. In the case study of Sayama suburban housing sites in the south-eastern region of Osaka prefecture, the authors explore how this housing site created the differentiated elite residential place by the establishment of many kinds of social and cultural associations and movements such as Sayama Culture League, and Sayama Culture Club which had both advocated the new styles of cultural and recreational activities toward the residents. The community association of this residential suburb had also dealt with many environmental problems in order to protect their residential atomosphere, by requirment of the provision of infrastructure and the efforts to introduce the building control agreement. The attachment and pride to the place among residents had led them to construct monument and to create new place name as a symbol of their elite consciousness.
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