A Study on the Formation and Change of the Community in the Joint Housing Projects Relative to the District

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the community forming process in the joint housing projects relative to the district and to examine the change of their communities and activities. We researched the 4 cases of the joint housing projects after Hanshin-Awaji earthquake reconstruction in Kobe city both in the year 2002 and in the year 2008. The results are as follows: 1) The Community development association in the district played an important role in promotion and process of the joint housing project. 2) The correlation between the community in Joint housing and the community of the district formed from the organizational network or the individual network. 3) The common spaces such as meeting rooms and open spaces in the joint housing are useful for people lived in the district. 4) The correlation of that community changed by the individual reasons or the change of the organization.