This study analyzes the conversion process of the waterfront area from mining to industry in prewar Ube City, focusing on the differences between the east and west of Majime River. On the west, the mining was consolidated at an early stage and reclamation and railroad construction progressed, which influenced the location of new factories in the 1920-30s. On the east, the consolidation was delayed, and the development of industrial infrastructure was slow, resulting in fewer factories until the early 1940s. City planning played a certain role for the industrial formation by planning a new road network in the area.

This paper, based on questionnaire and interview survey, clarifies how super high-rise condominiums in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area dealt with the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011. Most super high-rise condominiums suffered elevator failures, and the residents crowded on the first floor soon after the earthquake. During the elevator downtime, some common facilities such as meeting rooms, lobbies and party rooms worked as places for temporary and overnight refuges. Such uses were necessarily not preliminarily expected.

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The purpose of this paper is to trace a process of housing supply of the residential complex that planned by the housing direction in which the housing estate was transforming.Kobushi-danchi, the object of this study, was composed of 490 semi-detached houses (980 households), which were built in the suburbs of Tokyo in 1966. It is assumed that the residents took part in the housing supply, because Kobushidanchi was planned by the housing co-op and improved by the resident organization after the development. Therefore this paper, based on the research using documents, focuses on the planning, the ownership and the residents' activities to analyze the change in this project.

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