To examine how the apartment house should build good relationship with a community, this study understands the situation between the apartment house and its surrounding community and makes clear the relationship. At first, we examine the location trend of apartment house and the change of the number of the population and households in the 1970DID of Nagaoka City, and divide the various districts into the types. Next, we make hearing to the representative in the neighborhood association and the

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... partment house, and clarify the realities of the neighborhood association activity that becomes forming basic of a community and the acceptance situation of the apartment house. As a result, we clarify that the apartment house form is not accepted easily to an existed community while the apartment house construction is indispensable to promote urban residence.