This study aims to understand differences in moving situation and need for residential area of single mother households between rural are and urban area. In both Tottori Prefecture and Osaka City, over 70% of single mother households moved out of marital housing. In Osaka City, single mother who moved within same city prioritized children's school district and childcare, and who moved from other area prioritized relatives support. On the other hand in Tottori Prefecture single mothers prioritized relatives support regardless of former residential area. Moreover although single mothers in Osaka city mainly moved to private rental and relatives' house after divorced, single mothers' in Tottori Prefecture didn't have any other option except relatives' house. From these consequences, regarding single mother households in Tottori Prefecture, securing permanent housing is more restricted.

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The city of Ulaanbaatar used to have total population of 780.9 thousand in 2000, and its population has increased up to 1.2millions in 2007. 85% of the migrated people from other rural areas mostly reside in sub urban ger areas of the city. Thus, the ger areas of Ulaanbaatar are expanding and growing. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the problems and contradictions existing in the housing policy of the UB city government in the case of the Ger area.

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According to the result of my field investigations in 2007, the real estate market cycle of Apartments has changes at about 16 years in the Midtown areas. The investigations showed that the vintage life cycles by the case of building made by wood is 37.08 years, which made by Steel is 42.84 years, and which made by Reinforced Concrete is 47.52 years.

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N/Subdistrict is the biggest Muslim minority habitat in Beliing located at the downtown area. It is regarded as important bylocal goverlmlent and is sulficiently supPorted on policy and f111ance. Accolnpanying to the rapid ageing in recent years it is trying quite much to explore the Supporting System fbr the Elderly at Home (SSEH)-This paper aims to analyze the process of the SSEH in N-Subdistrict (N-SSEH) and tries to summarizc its features and abstract a SSEH pattern. The conclusions are asfollows: 1) The N-SSEH is fbrlned under the leading of local government and operated emciently by the existing community organization system;2) Aspecial community service framework fbr the elderly is fbunded based on an effective systematic organization and work mechanism: 3) Because ofthe limitation of elderly service resources provided by government, cooperation with various service providers is needed.

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The purpoee of this study is to clarify the conference and adjustment system of apartment development in Japanese local city seen from resident autonomy organization. The main firdings are as follows: 1) The number of the apartments supplied from 1998 to 2007 in Japanese local city is an average of 6000. 2) The local cities which have specified the resident autonomy organization as a negotiator for high-rise building regulations are Niigata City, Nagano City, and Matsuyama City. 3) In the case of Fukushima City, administration is not taught to the resident autoromy or ganization and the developer about the conference and adjustment, However, according to the questiomaire result of this study, the resident autonomy organization which has deliberations before development is a half. 4) According to the case study of this study, in all the processes of apartment development, it is important that the resident autonomy organization is related to the conference and adjustment.

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Condominium management carried out by professionals is a matter that is currently under consideration in Japan. Presently, individual condominiums are managed by a board, comprised of elected owners. This study examines the overview on the professional condominium management agencies (syndic) in France, in order to learn from their experiences.
Through analyzing the information for condominium residents in books, brochures and the interviews with government officers, the housing information center of Paris, the condominium residents support NPO and 3 residents of Paris, the followings are explained: In France, a professional management agent is legally assured to be controlled and assisted by the residents' board. However, despite a well defined legal relationship, the residents are not always satisfied with the professional management. To become a professional management agent, professional skill and experience, morality, professional assurance, financial guarantee must be proven, before governor of the prefecture publishes their license.

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A lot of local cities have greatly changed according to the population decrease in the center city and communal facilities are built to suburbs now. This study takes city center of Oita city as the object. We analyzed data that was gotten by the inhabitant questionnaire of city center in 2006. We selected typical life styles in city center of Oita city.

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In Seoul City of Korea, the New Town Project has been established to renewal of built-up areas. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the problems of urban renewal within the new town project areas of Seoul Metropolitan City. As the case study areas, three areas are chosen out of the 26 new town project areas. The main findings are as follows: 1) the renewal project has caused problems with effective city space and land use system because it focuses on private housing development. 2) As for the New Town Project, the duties of the public sector were increased in the renewal of built-up areas, although such duties were not clearly defined. In conclusion, we suggest a clear rule on the functions between the public and private sectors.

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This paper aims to clarify the validity of the activity for sending information of the regional resources based on information gathering process in urban area of Osaka, in the case of U-CoRo project, NEXT21 in Uemachidaichi.The results are as follows: 1) In the information gathering process of the regional resources, the main actor can know how other people are to do with the regional resouces.Also in the activity for sending information, event based-on-the-exhibition, they can also tell and know how people are to do with the regional resouces. 2) By sending information how people are to do with the regional resources, people who are interested in the regional resources can be to do with them easier.

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The objective of this study is to clarify the causes of difficulties of individually rebuilding wooden houses from the viewpoint of dispositional properties of the residents' attitudes and the conditions of properties, such as site conditions and conditions of lots abutting roads, and find the possibility of creating a space for building a community based on the residents' attitudes as well as improving living and residential environments, thereby exploring an approach to community building in urban areas where wooden houses are densely built. With the present state of living environment in the subject areas at Nogata 1-and 2-chome, Nakano Ward, Tokyo, the author examined the dispositional properties of the residents' attitudes.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how residents of guest houses use the common space for their personal exchange according to three scale types-10 or fewer, 11 to 30, 31 or more people.
The results are summarized as follows. 1) Most residents always use common space for exchanges such as common meal, chat, TV viewing. 2) The dormitory-room residents use common space frequently single-room residents. This is because many dormitory-room residents not to be disturbed for other residents of same room. 3) The guest houses of small scale (10 or fewer people) make communication easier between the residents. 4) The residents ask advice from landlord to resolve the problem in guest house.

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We investigated two themes in this research project at Daikanyama (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo).(1) Formation and transhrmation of land use mixture of city areas, and.(2) Growth management ofthe city by the subjectivity of interested citizens and organizations. Following things have become clear by our imeaith
We investigated about the actual operation of ‘Waga-machi Rule (Our Own Town Rule)’, which is registered at Shibuya-ku Town Management Regulation. The prior consultations regulated by the rule among neighborhood residents, development business enterprises, the town management organization and the city government, are faced to the difficulty of adjustments about the building development plans because of property right and profit-related problems. At the side of the local inhabitants and experts, the points of discussion are about the height, usage and the relationship with neighboring environments of the planned building in question.

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This paper makes clear the characteristics of favorite landscape in Oita city using questionnaire by citizen “My favorite 100 Oita Landscapes”. First, we decided the ranking of view points by results of questionnaire.
We took 360°Cpanorama photographs on 84 view points selected by the ranking. We cut off extents of objects as scenes from 360°Cphotographs. There were 239 scenes of all. These scenes were classified by combination of elements.
It was clear that there were 5 typical landscapes in Oita city. We analyzed visual composition to make clear the characteristics of typical landscapes.
As a result, visual compositions of each types were cleared by “viewing angle”, “distance of sight”, “difference of elevation”, and “relation between view point and object point”.

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the effort for neighborhood safety in Kume Area, Matsuyama City which aimed mainly to give the new students of the elementary school the information concerning neighborhood safety and analyze the attitude of their parents toward the “welcome map” as a fruit of the effort.
The process is (1) children and residents made “neighborhood safety maps” through the investigation of their neighborhood,(2) adults had a discussion on the solution to the problems concerning neighborhood safety and (3) they gave the newcomers the “welcome map” as a fruit of their effort.
The effort and the map were highly regarded because of the clarity of the map and its usefulness to share the information among residents and most of the parents had the wish for having this sort of the map continuously. Their wish is explained by two factors; their evaluation of the effort as a process of community building and their anxiety about their children's safety.

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