This study forcuses on awareness of residents and motivation for participation in the greening community development in Ushikubonishi area in Yokohama city. We clarify how residents high motivation to participation in the greening community development. We verify the greening community development has effect of a community.

This study focuses on the effective Educational workshop on changes in attitudes about townscape. We conducted the workshop use of photos and maps at lectures, and children were looking around the town, and had the presentations in the workshop. We analyzed the level of interests in townscape, attachment to the Nihonbashi area, attachment to their hometowns, and the habitation consciousness to the Nihonbashi area. We summarized the workshop brought growing childrens interests in history and townscape and, raising interests in their hometowns by comparing Nihonbashi.

The aim of this study is to clarify actual situation of the park management groups and promoting conditions of operation of the groups. We conducted the investigation of surrounding environment of neighborhood parks on Tuzuki Ward, in Yokohama City and questionnaires to the management groups. As a result, promoting conditions of the block park management is impacted by relationships among neighborhood associations and other public spaces.

This study focuses on the effectiveness of Educational Programs at the case of Edaminami Primary School for Community Development. We conducted Educational Programs for Community Development of Primary Schools with cooperation of university students. We analyzed how our educational programs dealing with pedestrian road which is familiar resources of the area changed consciousness of concern and impression of pedestrian road , and attachment and a sense of community . The method of "Physical feeling" of measuring temperature in our educational programs became a factor which raises concern and impression of pedestrian road greatly.

Events conducted by local communities, so-called “Matsuri” in Japan, can be important for regional revitalization. At regional events, unusual consumption behavior is observed that is not seen in daily life. That trend might reflect some differences among regions. This study specifically addressed the trend of fireworks displays as regional events, according to prefecture units. This analysis clarified regional differences according to deviation from evaluations such as cost–benefit assessments in special consumption behavior.

This paper is meant to be a prologue to carrying out comparative research on the consumer electronics retail districts of Japan and other countries. Such concentrated districts of electronics retailing also exist in other countries. However, since there is a lack research that sheds light on the concentrations of shops and the circumstances of the neighboring areas for electronics retail districts overseas, comparative examination of Japan and other countries is not yet feasible. This paper describes the current situation of Tottenham Court Road in the Fitzrovia neighborhood of London and examines the geographical factors related to the existence of an electronic retailing centre. In Fitzrovia, which includes Tottenham Court Road, in addition to retail shops there are also a university and residential areas. The likelihood that these geographical factors related to the living environment played a role in supporting and the development of the Tottenham Court Road electronics district was confirmed.

This study aims to clarify artists' motivation for participation in arts activities and community interactions in order to revitalize depressed areas. We conducted questionnaire survey,interviews, and field survey in Koganecho and its surrounding areas in Yokohama. We showed the importance of community exchange and space creation to promote participation in arts activities.

This study aims to grasp of visitors rambling activity and to find out promoting factors about rambling activity at Machida and Kichijoji city. We make a survey of visitors attribute and something of the purpose in the city moreover compare both cities result. As a result, we can reveal difference that purpose of use of a shopping district. In order to promoting rambling activity, large scale stores are decentralized moreover set up shopping district between large scale stores.

Hongucho, where known as flood prone area, was damaged by Flood caused by typhoon12 in 2011. Especially, people in Hagi-district evacuated from place to place for four times during the flood period. This study researches the people's responses through an interview survey and revealed the situation at that time. They had to decide their responses with restricted disaster information due to power failure, no contact tools, and street close-off. However, they laid their heads together and took self-help actions.

Nepal is located at earthquake prone area. However, most of the structure are non-retrofitted and made by bricks. Once earthquake occur, there is high chance of large damage by corruption of buildings. In this study, current living styles, evacuation production, disaster awareness were studied in Patan, Katmandu.

To make effective use of solar power, studies of the interchange effect of surplus electric power through a smart grid have attracted attention recently. However, the interchange effect among existing blocks that vary in their characteristics has not been sufficiently clarified. Therefore, this study analyzed the interchange effect among residential blocks related to urban form and existing blocks. Results show the following: 1) urban sprawl forms with low-density population give little room for interchange among blocks; 2) an urban form including less-used land mixed with a dense population, with the housing type and population density differing markedly on each block, interchange of surplus electric power can be done efficiently among blocks; 3) the interchange effect is small in a compact urban form.

When considering reorganization of the city area of a depopulation term, it is an important viewpoint to grasp urban form simply. In this research, we build the database which utilized the spatial data which can treat the whole country by package about 3 time from 2000. And we adopted two indices,

“Cool Japan Strategy” is the policies and initiatives produced by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. This project aims to cultivate creative industries, promote these industries in Japan and abroad, and other related initiatives from cross-industry and cross-government standpoints. We focus attention on the Japanese sub-cultural/pop-cultural phenomenon. This article investigates the formative history and factor influencing popularity in Paris, French, especially the Keller Street at 11th arrondissement. We also identified user visibilities and user demands for Japanese pop cultures. The results indicate that visibility of Keller Street as a hub of Japanese pop culture was 36% among the participants in the Japan Expo. 80% of visitors to Keller Street indicated attractive destination as plentiful supplies of the contents of Japanese pop cultures for this street.

Chikugo Yoshii Traditional Architectures Preservation District is one of the Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Historic Buildings. This article investigates the continuity of streetscape on this historical area. We had researched and identified 195 buildings as conventional buildings or non-conventional buildings according to the imperative manual. We also analyzed the continuity of streetscape used by index CON. The results indicate that 94 buildings are conventional buildings and 101 are non-conventional buildings. 53% streets hold their continuity of streetscape. Some areas have conventional buildings confined to one side of street. In these cases, it is difficult to identify their streetscape as a continuing unity area.

This study aims to clarify the evaluation of the impression of “sequence” of stores in an underground shopping mall, and “facade” which constitutes “sequence”. In order to clarify this, we tried to evaluate the impression of “sequence” by using the evaluation grid method and the semantic differential method. In addition, we considered the effect of the elements on “sequence” impression by using factor analysis and cluster analysis. As a result of this study, it is shown as the figure of the structure of the relation between the elements and the impressions in “sequence” of stores in an underground shopping mall.

Evacuees by the Fukushima nuclear disaster is still a lot, and the loss of community and household separation due to the evacuation are seen as a problem. So in this study, we reveal that challenges in revitalization from the nuclear disaster for the maintenance and playback of the community. For this purpose, as the target District Community in the affected areas, to conduct grasp of background. In this study, we define District Community as Group of residents that share the building blocks of life, such as education, labor, and consumption, and the shared range is completed in administrative compartment. In the organizing background, we apply the system analysis, and I have set up three axes (Relation subject, Issue, Action time of relationship subject).