The inhabitants’ concern for high education is rising, and they are likely to live in the school area with high school score. The demand of residential land with high score is rising and causes the rise of land price. It is necessary to inspect whether test scores influence land price of the neighborhood. In this study, I get the data of the test score of preparatory school in Tokyo and analyzed the influence of test score on land price by using panel data analysis and instrument variables. As a result, I conclude that high test score bring about high residential land price. The improvement of test score per standard deviation adds 0.17 % to land price.

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To prevent the reduction of the population in center of Osaka City, many measures had been taken aiming to promote building esidences. As a result, many super high-rise apartment complexes were built. However, it is a question whether these buildings are eally used as residences. In this study, to investigate this, basal data including the location trend and the building forms of 103 uper high-rise apartment complexes in 6 wards of Osaka downtown areas were collected and organized. We found that almost half the of super high-rise apartment complexes were built at the formerly public lots or in downtown, where business buildings of themajor companies representing Osaka had been previously located. These phenomena may reflect the changes of business community in Osaka Further, it is of note that a rate of super high-rise apartment complex actually used for residence was very low in the redeveloped area.

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This study aims to understand the phenomena of population recovery and construction of high-rise condominiums in urban centers of mid-sized local cities. From 2000 to 2010, population of the downtowns had recovered in 27 out of 45 case study cities, while that of downtown peripheries had shrunk in 42 cities. High-rise condominiums had been constructed and the household living in them had increased in the downtowns and downtown peripheries in all of the case study cities, but the household living in detached houses had decreased in the downtowns and downtown peripheries in almost all of the cities. Therefore, downtown peripheries, of which detached houses constitute a majority, had taken on population decline. Some downtowns of which detached houses constitute a majority have the same cause.

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In this era of depopulation, progress of knowledge for the management of modification process in built-up urban areas is needed. In Tokyo, people's tendency for living in city centers and transformation of land use toward mixed usage can be found. In built-upurban areas, most of spatial changes have been brought by re-developments of each sites conducted by individual circumstances. Thus, it is important to understand mechanism of modification process in built-up urban areas with continuous redevelopment which can be found dispersedly in areas. Using Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, as a targeted example, I try to describe process of modification in built-up urban areas focusing on land use mix with the method of discrete choice model.

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Disabled people have less option in their accommodation choice, such as their parents’ house, group home or admission facilities. Most of them live with their parents, guardians or care workers. This research focuses on houses shared with disabled people and people without disabilities. The purpose of this action research is to grasp the practice process and the living conditions after moving of the share houses and explain their problems and potentials. This research shows that the shared houses are the meaningful accommodation for disabled people from a social point of view as well as welfare. However the shared houses are not famous in Japan because its welfare system has not improved enough to support the shared houses which would need much subsidies. Therefore the government should promote the shared houses and it is necessary to assist them.

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Increase of unmarried person and diversification of housing needs enhance interest in shared living. An internet survey on shared living was conducted and answered by 711 single women and 434 mothers of high school daughters to know their attitudes toward the shared living and the difference of attitude structure between the two groups. The following were the major conclusions of this study: (1) About 30% of answerers have interest in shared living. Major merits they answer are care in case of sudden illness and economy and major demerits are risk of incompatibility and trouble with other residents. (2) There is a difference of attitude structure between the two groups. Single women’s interest in shared living is affected by interaction with other residents and mothers’ interest is affected by security and economy. (3) Single women who greet neighbors or participate in community activities tend to have more interest in shared living and those who values residents’ policing tend to have more interest in it.

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The purpose of this paper is to show the backgrounds to the public scheme which improves the living environment for elderly metropolitan housing residents, to research how elderly in TOYAMA-HAITSU use the public scheme, to evaluate the effectiveness of the public scheme and clarify future challenges. The results are as follows: Public schemes for residential environment improvement have been regularly reviewed, which leads to scheme update. It has been about 10 years since Long-term care insurance was introduced. Persons approved to need long-term care use long-term care insurance system and Shinjuku city welfare service. On the other hand, the independent healthy elderly improve their residential environment by home renovation at their own expense. For the elderly living safe in their home, improvement of public scheme for home renovation and familiarizing the independent elderly to the public scheme are required.

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This study aims to clarifying issues on the management of condominium for the exclusive use of aged people. First issue is high cost of service. The management side sometimes degrades quality and quantity of services due to easing heavy financial burden of residents. It sometimes causes conflicts with the residents who expect higher services. Second is management system. There are some unique ideas to utilize expert and advisor for the management. There are many cases that a management board presenting the homeowners is desired, however, it is difficult to introduce a management board in case that many of residents are aged in the condominium. Third is maintenance of value of property. How to maintain the value of property depends on the condominium and involvement of the developer in management, accordingly, management system should be more considered from the point that the condominium is a place of stable living for aged people.

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This study aims to clarify the condition of the successive management of the small-scale condominium and explore the possibility for its sustainable management. In particular, the study focuses on the difference of management, major repair process, and scope of entrustment of management, between condominium and co-operative housing.For this, questionnaires and interviews were conducted to the small-scale condominium associations. The analysis has revealed that: 1) the proportion of associations of cooperative housing that select the self-management is higher than in condominium. 2) In co-operative housing, the general meeting is held for the discussion about the agenda. However, in the case of condominium, it is held in order to obtain the approval. 3) It is necessary to improve the management based on a rotating system and sharing information about the management between the residents, in order to raise individual awareness of responsibility. 4) It is important to create a system that supports selfmanagement for compensating expertise.

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Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, the housing lease program for disaster victims supplied private rental houses as temporary housing. A large number of houses were rented in a short time and over a wide area. As such, understanding the situation of moving and living has been difficult. To examine the conditions of the households covered by this program in Iwate prefecture, this study conducted a questionnaire survey of 3,500 households and analyzed 1,700 responses. The following results were obtained. (1) Households that found out about this program after they had already rented houses were 60%, and 40% had intended to pay rent by themselves. (2) Many households started searching for houses within one month after the earthquake and found them within one month. Of these cases, 60% could secure houses in the same city and 40% rented available rooms through relatives and acquaintances. (3) Of the respondents, 60% expressed satisfaction with their ren

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Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, the housing lease program for disaster victims supplied private rental houses that serve as temporary housing. Many households moved to urban areas and other cities in order to acquire rental houses. For that reason, grasping the trend of housing reconstruction after leaving these houses is difficult. To examine the situation and the intent to reconstruct by households using this program in Iwate prefecture, this study conducted a questionnaire survey of 3,500 households and analyzed 1,700 responses. The following results were obtained. (1) Of households that had already left to live in rental houses, 70% reconstructed their own houses. (2) Households that moved to other cities with this program tended to reconstruct houses in their new cities, not in their original cities. (3) Of households that were still living in rental houses, 30% intend to reconstruct houses on new land developed by public projects and to occupy public housing. (4) Of households that were still living in rental houses, 70% did not have prospects for housing reconstruction because of delayed projects and payment difficulties.

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Redevelopment district plan is the system that enables to develop the area more integrally by deciding the place of public spaces. This system is expected to create the public spaces in the densed areas of the cities. This study aims to define the way of using the system“redevelopment district plan”and the use and maintenance of public spaces in the planned areas. It reveals the states of the public facilities developed by the system in Sapporo city and indecates the problems. The following three points are main conclusions. 1) The opportunity“priory consultation”has potential for the municipality and divelopers to decide development plan considered for the durability. 2) In the case of chenging a manager, the inheritance of liabilities to maintain pubulic spaces will be needed. 3) In a future,it would be needed the ways in which municipal authority evaluates the state of public spaces.

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This paper investigates the recent changes in the quantity and quality of the low-rent private rental housing stock in Tokyo. By employing the tabular data and microdata samples of the Japan Housing and Land Survey, it empirically finds the rapid decline in the low-quality but low-rent rental housing stock in Tokyo; 80% of the low-rent private rental housing stock defined as monthly rent under ¥40,000 disappeared from the market from 1988 to 2008. The affordable housing problems are emerging in Tokyo though hardly recognized as critical agenda in current housing policy discussion in Japan.

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Numbers of crime prevention volunteer groups have been gradually expanding in Kumamoto prefecture, which has contributed to higher safety in residential area. However, those greatly supportive members are increasingly aged and the inevitable alternative, new supporters – the younger generation, especially parent- generation manly from 30s to 40s, are relatively few at the moment while dual career household ration is rapidly rising in Japan. We conduct research on the present situation and feasibility of parentgeneration participation in local community. The result shows their high interests in various local activities, regardless of their diversified work styles. We firstly suggest the importance of family communication about crime prevention for the sake of safe community planning. Then discuss the concrete approach how higher participation rate of parent-generation can be achieved in local communities, including crime prevention activities. People need to address disclosing and sharing various local information and build flexible participatory arrangements for dual career families.

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This objective of this research is, examine the way to regeneration and decline factor on central district of local city. In this paper, we carried out the questionnaire survey targeting store manager in central district. We focused on characteristic of attitude and activity of store manager and the difference of community attitude and activation to central district by resided in store. The results of the surveys, attitudes lifestyle and community, community and joint management & operation and meeting and special event activities are taken as a whole, the store manager living in store multipurpose house tended to live grate age and neighborhood acquaintance is active other than they. The study also found that there has been a decrease in the attitude of central district revitalization. The study also found that there has been a decrease in the attitude of central district revitalization. Inviting the young store manager to central district greatly influence that promote visiting there the young and deterioration in vitality by population ageing.

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This paper is a continuation of “Research into American Eco-village Co-housing – Features of Regional Zoning –”. The work focused on 4 categories of location, in particular urban locations. The location characteristics, housing space characteristics, characteristics of the activities of the residential communities, and the characteristics of the methods and activities for coexistence with the environment were established, and the relationship between the various kinds of spaces and activities was determined, in order to clarify the points to be learned for future co-housing lifestyle in Japan.

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This study aims to grasp actual conditions and residential consciousness in shared living through the residents’ life stories, and to consider planning aspects of apartment shares. The SOCIAL APARTMENT NAKANOSHIMA SAPPORO is the renovated existing building. Each resident’s life story can be divided into two attributes; the orientation acquired by life experiences and the recognition of shared living. As the result of the analysis of relationship between these attributes and spatial characteristics, the following points have become clear; 1) The common space is given public meaning by coupled with residents’ orientation and spatial characteristics. The former is the orientation of the human relation in an appropriate distance, the latter is the independence of the common space from residents’ own rooms. 2) Residents give high evaluations of the common space where they can come across something new. This evaluation is related to the respect for residents’ communication by administrators. 3) Administrators visit the common space frequently and they cope with problems in each case. This management method contributes to residents’ utilization of the common space.

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Building-Standard-Law determined the minimum standard for safety of buildings and obliged to undergo inspection at their completion of construction. However the ratio of inspection has been under 50% for many years. As many buildings under minimum safety standard collapsed by the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in 1995, the importance of the Inspection for Completion has been recognized again. The ratio of inspection has been improved to around 90%. Especially in Saitama, Nara and Hokkaido prefecture the ratio is high. This study explicates the system of those three prefectures; they have many 100%Special-Administrative-Agencies and “All Saitama United Action” is effective.

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The purpose of this paper is to study how Rental housing management business developed, and what is actual state of it. The results are as follows: Rental housing management business has been developing from Meiji period,and present major companies were established from the 50’ of Showa period. It is mainly consisted of extensive subleasing business entities, middle-standing enterprises operating in prefectural area and many small others. And it has been functioning to provide good services to lessers.

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Since the enforcement of housing eco-points, the number of insulation renovation, mainly the energy-saving measures, has increased. Considering above is impact from economic incentive of the housing eco-points. In this paper, internet survey about the consumers who had used the housing eco-points was taken, presuming that evaluation and consciousness of consumers to the insulation reforms have changed. As a result of the analysis, the renovation that the result of the insulation is easy to realize indicates the high change of the energy saving awareness. It is also revealed that the discriminant analysis shows no statistically meaningful difference.

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The aim of this study is users inquired the utilization of the space in the university.In the past, the University in Japan was required just Education yet Research. On the other hand, the University at present is required to open for communities and communicate with local residents.Currently, the university is also required the aspect of local resource. However, the previous studies focused on in-teractive economical system between local community and the university, or effective use of facilities in the university for students. In this study, we focused on the user’s behaviour pattern chronicle of spatial. As a result of analysis, the surronding environment and campus conditions affect the difference of amount of users. However, the users in both campuses have correlation.

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This paper shows the outbreak of external diseconomy caused by unmaintained vacant houses and buildings through economic approach after having analyzed the present conditions and the problems of those. Particularly, it has been clarified that land prices of residential land around unmaintained vacant houses and buildings, which have much probability to collapse or scatter building materials due to decaying, or have been ordered to remove or repair by local authorities, are apt to become lower. In addition, this study analyzes the effect of current various countermeasures for external diseconomy caused by unmaintained vacant houses and buildings, and shows that such countermeasures may not necessarily function effectively and efficiently.

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