The Distribution of the Multi-storey Apartment Houses in Sendai

Abstract

The author investigated the distribution of the multi-storey (three or more storey) apartment houses in Sendai and adjacent cities, Izumi and Natori, classifying them into three types, company or official, private, and public apartment houses. Also, he surveyed the changes in the distribution during the last fifteen years, and examined some of the characteristics of the three types of houses respectively.The results of this study are as follows:1) The number of multi-story apartment houses have increased greatly in the last fifteen years; however, they still constitute a small share of residential dwellings. And the high-rise apartment houses have increased in recent years.2) There are many multi-storey company of official apartments in the residential areas of the city. These houses are owned mainly by governmental, finaincal, and construction- industrial institutions, reflecting the changing function of Sendai as an administrative city of Tohoku.3) The number of multi-storey private apartment houses have increased very rapidly in recent years, especially around the C. B. D. Many of dwellers of these apartment houses benefit because of the close proximity to their working places. Also, a part of these buildings is often used as offices or stores.4) Many multi-storey public apartment houses are located in the suburbs in large clusters. This type of apartment complex is usually constructed on public land or on the land where public buildings existed in the past.