Hanazato Toshihiro

The 20^th century was an era of modernization. People moved freely from one place to another. The history of architecture and cities clearly reflects the characteristics of the era. The era and people’s busy lifestyles mostly affected people’s housing in urban and suburban areas. For instance, rapidly evolving technological innovation prompted people living in urban areas to move to the suburbs and live in a single-family house, but today’s compact city slogan encourages people to return to urban areas. Housing is a keyword in our research. To find the roots of global urbanization trends that began in Japan around 1900, we elucidate the role of various architectural and other designs. We consider it necessary to identify each modernization phenomenon of housing design by documenting, analyzing, and conserving prominent phenomena. We are motivated by this idea and hope to find areas of practical applications.