Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the manner the wooden apartments accumulate and cause the high density of the neighborhood (authorized minimal size) in the wooden apartment areas that are characterized as "massed condition type" in four cities in Osaka, besides to estimate the neighborhoods which might be in question from the viewpoint of improvement. The contents are summerized as follows; The neighborhoods there are not equal and some outstanding ones are found. Some contain from 1000 to the maximum 2750 apartments. The ratio of the apartments to the whole dewellings is sometimes more than 90%. And the smaller ground area per wooden apartment, reportedly 15.4m^2, in Osaka than in Tokyo makes the density high. The maximum reaches 257 dwellings per hectare (602 population per hectare). Out of the neighborhoods there, the ones holding more than 600 apartments, which are hardly found in other cities, are marked. Neighborhoods with the density of more than 150 dwellings per hectare are unusual in Tokyo or Osaka, however, such exist in relatively large numbers among them. These 40 neighborhoods should be considered for improvement, although the wooden apartments number almost 39 thousand, corresponding to 13% of the whole housholds in the four cities.

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