This study aims at examining the contents of the system and the roles of the experts on purchasing existing house in Germany to clarify implications for improving the dealing system of existing houses in Japan. It is noted that German purchasers can hire the notary to make clear the contents of contract about houses which they will buy. The notary hired by the buyer gives the information before buying a house. The buyer has the legal obligation to hire the notary to contact to buy a house. Those can prevent troubles in purchasing a house in Germany. In this regard, it is useful for Japan to establish a new dealing system of the existing house, which the buyer hire the expert as a notary.

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This study aims firstly to reveal how community life is managed by residents in a privately run dormitory, and secondly to gain knowledge about how to make successful self-management in student dormitory. Since 2004, when the dormitory was opened, the private enterprise had tentatively supported self-management by the residents until it was considered to be working actively. However, after the restraint on the support, there was a loss of self-management function due to the turnover of residents. Therefore the enterprise has started its support again by organizing meetings among the new residents and making contact with a student representative by email. The support has consequently encouraged the residents to call attention through messages on a whiteboard, with the resident representative taking the lead. From the above, the following were found out to play a key role in self-management of community life in dormitory: 1) Meetings about self-management among residents 2) Student representative who takes the lead in self-management 3) Contact system among residents in order to call attention 4) Outside support for self-management such as communication with residents

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The purpose of this study is to examine the problem and method of "Community salon" to form a regional community to renovate of suburban housing estates. Especially, the community salon is examined as "Public space" to solve the policy task. Then, the questionnaire survey was executed to 27 resident activity groups to renovate suburban housing estates, and the answer was obtained from 23 groups. Moreover, the hearing survey was executed to 4 advanced cases. As a result, the management form to relate the life problem to the policy task was adopted in the community salon. Next, community salon "Potto"was experimentally managed in Hourai resident's area, Fukushima City. The activity details were shown, and it proposed the management solution for the community salon, for instance, the use of human resources. In addition, the questionnaire survey was executed to 258 families. As a result, the resident hopes to use the community salon by a free purpose.

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The purpose of our study is to analyze the future housing demand for the baby-boomers who live in Osaka metropolitan area by replacing the data of prior study with new one.the followings are the result: (1) The return of the Central Cities population is under way in Osaka metropolitan area. (2) The return of the Central Cities population influence the number of future households and future housing demand. (3) The cities influenced by the return of the Central Cities population are classified four type.

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The　purpose of this study is to find what is satisfied and what is unsatisfied as a child-care environment by the families with children living in a housing complex and to investigate the possibility of making a connection between the inhabitants of a housing complex for child-care support. The results are as follows. 1) The child-care environment of housing complexes is generally appreciated by the families with children living there. 2) What are highly evaluated are the factors on built environment such as existence of playgrounds and distance to schools. On the other hand, the factors on social issues such as connection between mothers or children are thought to be not enough. 3) The social network for mothers and children living there,which was thought to be a housing complexes’ forte， has been declining in the past 30 years. 4) The half of the families with children living there need some help, and some of the residents said that they are ready to give them some light help such as a baby-sitting for a few hours, assisting nursery schools and being child-care advisers.

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We investigated the resident’s intention about the remodeling of dwelling environment of the housing estate (Nagoya M-estate) when the time of making the repairing plan had been faced. As a result of the questionnaire survey, it has been understood that the resident that exceeds 60 percent wants to keep living in M-estate. At the same time, it has been understood that many residents feel the problem in barrier・fee and the parking lot, and to hope for the installation of the elevator. In addition, we analyzed the relation between resident’s attributes, various conditions of the houses, and resident's intentions about remodeling of dwelling environment. As a result of the analysis, we were able to consider the existence of problems about making the repairing plan and consensus from the relation of those elements.

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Architects have been often troubled by the lack of information about local lumber. As for this, the concern is thought to be thin etc. as a cause by the lumber-making that the producer had not been firmly told for what lumber information the architects hopes and along the market trend also of the lumber producer. To urge common understanding of the architects and the lumber producer in this text，"lumber traceability" was researched as a creating environment that was able to do communications each other actively and effectively. To confirm the effectiveness of this model, the verification experiment was done as a forest in a general Fukuoka Prefecture Hisayarna-cho. It verified it by using the case where production management was done from the tree choosing to the lumber carrying using the GPS terminal that had worked in the Fukuoka Prefecture Hisayama-cho in 2005 .Simplify reductions in cost and the system or more to expand the lumber traceability system to use the region material in the main discourse. Moreover, it has been understood that it is important to straighten the environment to be able to access not only the architects it and the lumber producer but the consumer a price, dry information, the Young’s modulus (rigidity), and texture and other information, etc. easily.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the actual conditions of housing-share dwellings and explain its problem and possibility for the utilizing of that. And the results of investigation, it’s emerging that housing-share dwellings was a house for the studio apartment as a saucer of single peoples various life. And though the house which was hard to accept in the rental house market, it had demand in the house as shared house. But market of housing-share dwellings is not increasing as much as make little progress, because of concern about lease system and worry for housing-share dwellings of the owner of a rented house. Therefore structure to promote housing-share dwellings is necessary.

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of "Green Project" foundations to understand their current actual conditions and to suggest improvement implications for the foundations. Main findings from the case study and the comparison of Japanese and Korean communities include followings: 1) Management form of the foundations, such as the budget, the project and the structure differ in foundations depending on founders’ social background. 2) Chance and number of project are increased in which the local private parties able to participate by the foundations. However, there are still few projects that the residents participated in actively. 3) Japanese foundations had clearer scope in projects and various methods for the funding in foundation comparing with that of Korea. In conclusion, the communication between the local NPOs and Foundation and the support of municipal government in pioneering project are crucial for the success of Korean foundations.

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This study aims at examining the measures to deal with issues concerning rebuilding housing complexes (the popular form of condominiums in Japan). In rebuilding housing complexes, disposition of surplus floor space, securing the temporary residence and variety of forms of ownership and bylaw are the major challenges. To meet these challenges, financing of rebuilding by disposing surplus land, adoption of step-by-step rebuilding and formulation of new model bylaw for housing complexes are required. It is also important that the Japanese legal system concerning condominium rebuilding, such as Act for Sectional Ownership of Building, and Condominium Rebuilding Promotion Act, are to be reviewed to promote rebuilding of housing complexes.

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between homeless people and traditional tourist city, through the study of their housing conditions in Kyoto City. The results are the followings: 1）The homeless in Kyoto City could be divided into eight groups according to their housing conditions. 2) In tourist city, the citizens have a high concern for the cityscape. And the activity that makes the city beautiful causes a decrease in homeless people. 3) There are few parks in traditional city, and homeless people tend to make their dwellings in river side and live in there for a long term.

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Analysis on 30 cities in Hanshin and Osaka areas elucidates that industrial cities experienced 1) heavy population decrease from the peak of high-growth period of the Japanese economy and 2) serious emigration loss of young population. The former means the demand of conversion of public facilities and the later suggests the new housing development after that will revitalize the bright areas. 14 cases of such conversion indicate白紙 redevelopment near the station will pull new comers more form outside of the city and that further will pull more young new inhabitants. Finally the economic effect of housing development after Meirin Junior High school land is calculated as 15.7 billion Yen using Input-output analysis.

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In the Japanese city, It prohibits from an individual occupies public space for commerce. On the other hand, there are a lot of attractive cities in Europe and there, people are using a sidewalk cafe on the public space daily. In this way, I will think that it is necessary that people can occupy the public space for commerce. But, it has a problem to lack in equitableness. There are "Riverside cafe" which occupyed a public space, the riverbank, in Kyobashi river in Hiroshima city. This has two kinds of types, one is "the Frontage use type" which overall uses all together the private space which neighbors a public space, the other is "Independent store type" which occupies a store on the public space. The aim of this paper is to clarifying the evaluation of circumference residents for "Riverside cafe", and to clarifying the effect in the difference of the evaluation of two types. In conclusion, it was clarified that "Independent store type" will aim for the visitors coming ,where "the Frontage use type" showed that the facilities for local residents stop by daily.

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Since 2000, the creative city concept in China has been extensively studied. And In 2005，"China Creative" theory was also raised. Creativity is proposed of sustainable urban development. In the City Planning of China, there are two important issues for the Creative Cities. The paper reviewed the system of complex urban renewal, and measures to bring out the creativity of residents. This paper analyzed the current situation and case study of China’s urban development.

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This study is based on the opinion surveys and interviews conducted in 2002 and 2007 for the residents of an apartment building district (Tumur Zam [No. 2] in Bayangol District)located in central Ulaanbaatar, a city in which the trend toward greater urbanization and fixed residence has been progressing. Changes over time in the correlation between activities and attitudes with regard to lifestyle and community were verified in order to obtain basic knowledge regarding the creation of living and residential environments in urban areas in Mongolia. The study found that, when attitudes toward lifestyle and community, community and joint management & operation and meeting and special event activities are taken as a whole, awareness of fixed residence on the part of the apartment dwellers has been enhanced with the passage of time. The study also found that the community (relations with neighbors) within the apartment building district has tended to stagnate and few residents feel that there is an advantage to communal living in the apartment building, and that there has been a decrease in the evaluation of joint activities and joint work activities and the desire of residents to participate in these activities.

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In the 21st Century, the aging population problem of new towns built in the former century is the most important aspect in the management of metropolitan municipalities. 'Yukarigaoka' is the rare successful case of realizing long-term management and ideal social mix to alleviative the aging population effects among Japanese new towns. In this paper the economic possibilities to sustain transit oriented development (TOD) in 'Yukarigaoka' is also investigated mathematically.

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This study aimed to obtain state of private gardens relevant to the installation of private, ground-level gardens at mid-to-high-rise residential complexes by investigating residents' usage and perceptions of such gardens. The satisfaction rate among users of private gardens at the residential complex was found to be about 70%. The presence of private gardens was a contributory factor to moving in for about 70% of residents, and a similar proportion would choose a residence with private gardens when moving. Similarly, about 70% of residents entered the private gardens virtually every day, with frequency tending to increase with age. Usage frequency also tended to be high in the first year of residency,showing a further upward trend as the number of years of residency increased.

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This paper aims to gain further knowledge to facilitate the rebuilding of condominium, based on survey results, to　clarify the trends of rebuilding after the condominium law enforcement, especially to analyze the main issues in the implementation phase reconstruction. Condominium building over 30 years at the end of 2010 has been estimated about 94 million units.The maintenance and revitalization of High annual Condominium has become a major social issue. This paper analyzed the survey for personnel of the condominium project, whith was conducted from April through May 2008”Survey on the situation and consider rebuilding the condominium”(Implementation ・： Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism).According to analysis,the legal system since 2004, was seen to be effective in facilitating reconstruction condominium, also found in other issues.

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House manufacturers are required to take service strategy to win market competition with competitors and make profit improvement. But it is not clear what type of service can make profit, so this thesis is to make clear it. Consumers surveys are done to make clear their Willingness To Pay for various services.And correlation is analysed between house Manufacturers profitability and their service strategy. To conclude, the service to increase products value is required by consumers and profitability of house manufactures' who provide such service is better than other companies.

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The purpose of the study was to suggest the housing alternatives for the elderly from the viewpoint of aging in place. The study was intended to present the alternatives on the basis of the concept of group home and shared housing. In order to achieve it, first, the concept and characteristics of group home and shared housing were examined. Then, the living conditions of the elderly and the home sharing related needs of them were examined. The subjects were 201 older persons whose age were more than 65 years and lived in detached houses. Results were as follows; 1) It was identified that group home and shared housing were acceptable to the subject aged. 2）The modified group home which consisted of less than 10 individual detached houses and common area was presented as an alternative for the elderly. The individual ones were existing ones which the elderly lived in. The common area included of common kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and living room for about 10 old persons. The common area can be provided by building a new one and remodeling the existing building for other purpose or community center for the elderly. The detached houses which had spare bedrooms can be shared by another old persons. This alternative would be economic and useful to the elderly.

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