This study aims at finding an improvement scheme of community facilities based on residents' use conditions and evaluation in a definitely planned town, Senri New Town. Use conditions of community facilities are influenced by geographical factors such as distances to Neighborhood Centers and District Centers and locations of facilities surround New Town. “Places” for meals, medical care, grocery stores, nursing care and seeing friends are desired in their neighborhood. It is appropriate to add these places in deserted Neighborhood Centers. And it is also efficient to utilize community facilities/places corresponded with needs of residents even though their new use would be different from original plans.

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This study is a part of larger historical research efforts concerning “Chinese Urban/Architectural Sphere”　that covers China, the Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, Vietnam as well as Japan. To illustrate the various aspects of this sphere, We have chosen to focus on Korean urban development during the Chosun period (1392-1910). A large picture of the historical development of Korean cities during this period, including geographical distribution and their constituent elements such as public architecture, markets, urban dwellings, has emerged through our analysis of the contemporary official local records.

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The objective of this paper is to clarify the design-code for revitalization of the historical living space in Asian countries. It is important to focus on not only architecture but also exterior space. In Macao, the way to renovate historical architecture keeping those facade for the historical landscape were clarified. In Shanghai, residential scheme for continuous use were clarified by analyzing of usage of alleys, and by comparing old and present plans. In Penang, the spatial characteristics of the streets were verified, and by the using the modeling method of the computer graphics, the form generation principle of shophouses were analyzed.

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The purpose of this research is to clarify the peculiarities of interior decoration construction in contemporary Beijing comparing with the situation in Japan. Practicing small construction and observing its process, the research analyses each of construction schedule, workers' situation, construction cost and material market in Beijing. This research concludes that the peculiarities of Beijing's interior construction are I) toleration to changing at the construction site, 2) large dependence on wood work and 3) adjacency between factory and construction site.

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In order to study the garden city of Suresnes city, the minutes of the regular meetings of the Public Office of Low Cost Housing of the Seine Prefecture, the drawings of the dwellings found in the Sureties City Museum were referred. It has resulted in revealing the fact that most buildings are middle-rise ones, the typical French institutional framework, the ideas and discussions in the Office, and the budget policy for land acquisition and building activities, etc.

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This study is aiming to consider an effective approach to reactivate the community by utilizing the local culture. We have been caring out two projects in typical dense cities, examining the usage of local culture; “Machi-no-le”, and “Tsurumi-Studio”. We analyzed their processes and result from the view points of “Cultural Policy”　and “Vitalization into Space”. Elements such as “Nagaya”, “restaurant”, “public space” and “social capital” are found out to be resources, and in order to manage them in cultural policies, “Comprehensibility of Space” turned out to be an important factor.

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The concept of compact city has been paid mention to as the new urban form that responds to progress in aging, decrease of people living within the city cores, change in household composition and reduction of environmental loads. In this study, we surveyed progressive European cities famous for its compactness and sustainability and some Japanese cities to find the difference in the viewpoint of traffic system, open spaces, commercial area and clarity of city boundary. Finally, on the basis of the findings we made a proposal of urban forms for realizing a “compact city” in Kiryu city.

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The purpose of this research is to clear it about the residential suburbs area formation of “Sumiyoshi-mura”　located in the area of Hanshin. Several points were revealed. The development of the residential suburbs area of “Sumiyoshi-mura” was the beginning twenty centuries. “Sumiyoshi-mura” male the kind of a village housing site in 1900. Moreover; the businessmen of much Osaka bought the land of “Sumiyoshi-mura”. These were before generating of the residential suburbs area in Japan. The residence of “Sumiyoshi-mura” was provided, without breaking the village The community institution of “Sumiyoshi-mura”made by the inhabitant. As for them, all residents cooperated.

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This paper aims to investigate the process and the effects of development negotiations of mansion developments. Thor are two types of negotiations, direct negotiations between developers and neighbors and administrative negotiations under the ordinance, To analyze the negotiation process, the cases of Yanaka in Taito-ku, Anekoji in Kyoto-city and the townscape ordinance in Kunitachi-city are chosen. To make negotiations effective, detailed discussions on townscape and design are needed It is also important to reflect ideas that are discussed in negotiations to city planning.

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The purpose of this study is to elaborate preservation methods for the old city of Fez, Morocco. From the viewpoint of the separation of public and private, I point out that; I .the modern road constructed in the center of the old city has a unique spatial feature, and, 2.the traditional lifestyle has been changed because of the overpopulation caused by inflow of rural people. Therefore, it is adequate to promote a conversion of historic monuments, to equip houses, and to control the expansion of private renovation. The guidelines suggested in this study aims at applying of these changes of space use. Finally, I apply the guidelines to an alternative plan of the preservation policy today.

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A community engawa refers to a flexible, small-scaled place where, with the boundary between the inside and the outside being dissolved, a multitude of functions mingle together and a variety of encounters and exchanges take place. This study intends, by taking up several typical instances of community engawas which utilize existing stocks of dwellings, shops and public spaces located in urban areas, to consider a possibility that these engawas will lead to the rebirth of urban residential areas in an aging society with fewer children. The making of community engawas is a process where things which have long been abandoned are reformed in search of roles they can play under new circumstances, and the “power of place” is thus revived and re-created; the power these places recover as high-dimensional spaces where vivid interactions take place between people, things and events. It is a positive and voluntary action which transforms “something already made” into “something we make”. Among residents and experts engaged in this undertaking is nurtured a “human ability”, which allows them to understand subtle shades of soft relationships between the rational and the sensuous as well as between self and others.

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We surveyed in 5 villages and 2 old cities around Koyasan on the characters of house buildings with miscanthus reed roofing, village industry, village land use, and the personal relation among neighboring villages with special interest in building craftsmen. We also surveyed flora and fauna in Amano, Koyasan-sannai, and Kuki. As the result, we found the importance of village location between two cultural core of Koyasan and Kinokawa-suji. This location characterizes village profiles. According to those tradition, villages have processed recent gradual transform of land use. We found correspondence between such village character and natural environment.

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Recently, conversions of vacant office into residence draw attention, but most of them are only done as the means of filling vacancy, even though them are bigger merits hidden. This paper defined conversion as the method to make an attractive inner city quickly and integrally, and named that as “Area Conversion”. First of all, the recent situation of conversion in Tokyo was cleared. Secondly, the situation of “area conversion”, which made Lower Manhattan revitalize, was analyzed Finally, it is suggested that area conversion is needed in Tokyo as an area revitalization stately.

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The purpose of this paper is to consider the patterns of floor planning of the western-style houses in Hokkaido in the 19th century. We examined the process of being built the western-style houses in Hokkaido during 19th century and also investigated East American houses built before 19th century in the open-museums in Massachusetts to accumulate the fundamental examples of comparative study. In conclusion, the western-style houses of Hokkaido, in the first half of Meiji era, had all the hallmarks of the floor planning.. formation of main house and attached building, rigid symmetry, axial entrances and central corridor.

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In Shiiba Village, the sacred dances known as Shiiba kagura have been handed down since 17th century, which are performed in the individual houses every winter thanking the harvest and their happiness to God. The dances have gradually come to be played in the community center nowadays, however, still in a few hamlets performed in their own houses as in the past. We have conducted the field survey on 20 houses and the 5 actual kagura performances. Based on the analyzed results, we will make it clear that the people in Shiiba have adjusted the plan of the house to the ceremonial events especially to the sacred dance.

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Laosicheng is Tujia people's village and is in Yongshun Prefecture of Hunan Province, China. It had been the Tujia people's political, economical and cultural center from 1369 to 1739. Therefore it was specified as the important cultural property of China in 2001. Afterwards it became the tourist resort. There is a possibility of spoiling the historical landscape. In this study, we clarified alterations of Tujia people's houses there and proposed measures that the influence on the historical landscape becomes the minimum. Especially, alterations of the tangwu that is a hall of Tujia people's house is important on the historical landscape.

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Since1990, the Old Dilapidated Housing Rebuilding Programme has been implemented together with the Urban Redevelopment as well as the Housing System Reform in Beijing. In this paper, the Chongwen District was selected as the case study, the actual conditions of the residents and their way of perception were described through informal interviews. In this process, it was pointed out that there had been polarization between those who enjoy a new habitation space and those who cannot but transfer to a great distance; and that the programme did not take into consideration negative impact enough on people's social life and their feeling of discontent.

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Monyoki contains a lot of useful drawings of medieval architecture, and the original Sonen-dinnnoh version has long been treasured in Shoren-in. We classified these original drawings according to the name of building, the rituals performed there, and the date of the rituals, to put them to academic use. We also organized the database of linguistic expressions of architecture in the text. Furthermore, we performed the same kind of classification on another Shoren-in doctrinal, Kissui-zou Shougyou, to clarify the compilation process of Monyoki through comparison, which is needed for critical analysis of the drawings.

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New Honmaru Palace was designed after old one. Section& Details Drawing and Elevation & Section Drawing or studied to clarify the relationship of the palaces in Koka and Manen Eras. Elevation & Section Drawings were found to be made on the key important buildings. Elevation & Section Drawings and Roof Plan around Otakamori woe made after the revision of Floor Plan with the clove of base line in Sectional Details Drawing in Manen Eras. It was also found that Elevation & Section Drawing of Mom& was made after change of the Floor Plan.

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Women rough sleepers in Japan are only 3%, but “homeless women” are “Hidden Homeless” and their problems have been buried. Our research in Tokyo identified 1) the features from a gender view of the status of homeless women and their support, 2) conditions of public and private facilities, 3) an evaluation of one women's shelter, and 4) the conditions of stable housing for women who transferred from the women's shelter. We also analyzed the status and implementations of homeless women in Toronto. We suggest some issues concerning support for homeless women.

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Common spaces and facilities have taken root as a way of planning for condominiums including many units in Japan. The aim of this study is to make clear the actual condition on successive change of these common spaces and facilities in early condominiums, and make suggestions to make them work well. The researches were conducted by way of questioners to the chief of homeowners association or the management staff by mail and hearing on 8 housing estates. Some interesting changes have already occurred and they can be arranged by three factors. From the actual conditions of these changes 8 suggestions to make them work well could be made.

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In this study, the situation of building demolition construction has been firstly investigated for residential buildings. From the viewpoint of resource and energy saving, we have examined the enemy consumption for demolition, recycle and re-use. According to field study, a method to calculate the energy use to renew the building materials has been presented. By using an example of housing complexes, the process of the demolition construction in 2001 and 2002 has been discussed. And the treatment method, the schedule and energy use in each demolition construction project also have been analyzed.

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This study investigated the contents and the measure of the elevator installation in the existing apartment that is going on in Japan aimed for stock practical use and a barrier-free. In the future, more than a half management bodies shows positive posture to adopt the barrier-free type elevator installation to the stairs room apartment Practical use of a housing stock has the side of residents agreement In order to promote practical use of a housing stock, the more prudent arguments are required about a house rent and a fee for common service, including a resident burden.

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The construction by Ohtomo was verified 24 cases. The design was done from consideration in the plan as the team as for design it became clear to become popular widely occasionally gathering skillfully. As for Ohtomo's work before the Kanto large earthquake disaster brick construction was many, as for use the bank and the warehouse etc. were many. But, after earthquake disaster many with the woodwork, as for use were limited to the residence. In other words, late year, as for Ohtomo it became clear to design mainly in wooden residential construction.

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