A comparative study on cooperation in housing

The purpose of this “Comparative Study on Cooperation in Housing : Theory of Community Housing” is firstly to clarify the concept of Cooperation in Housing, and secondly to clarify the actual conditions and opportunities of the Cooperation by analyzing practical cases of Cooperation in Housing. The key-words are ‘Cooperation’ and ‘Housing’ in community-scale. First of all, on ‘Cooperation’, I compared each country's residential planning both historically and comparatively. I noticed under certain socio-historical conditions that residential formation made by the ‘Cooreration’ power, not by the ‘public’ or the ‘private’, appeared strong and that it compensates the ‘public’ and the ‘private’. Examples are the co-partnership housing in the poverty-stricken times and the co-op housing in the affluent times. I tried to grasp each country's residential planning as one of the pedigrees of the ‘cooperaion’ in community. On ‘Housing’, I depended on the theory of Tamer who studied the urban reality of the Third World. In theory it is believed that the more the dwellers positively take part in the process of residential planning, construction and management, the more satisfied and the happier the residents become. The cases I studied are the Brentham Garden Suburb in England and Draviel Garden Suburb in France both in the early 20th century. In the former case, I found new materials, and could analysis in detail. I found the cooperative efforts between the ‘dwellers’ who wanted better built environment, and the philanthropists. I also found cooperative efforts among the ‘dwellers’ themselves, and cooperation among the ones who made wealth. There was also tremendous self-help and so on. This is ‘mutual help, self-help, community based land management’. In the background of these efforts, there existed thought of ‘Prosperity Sharing’. The point is how they can share the wealth with those without, how they can fairly and equally share the wealth that has been achieved by the affluent. The question raised by two case studies for contemporary Japan is meaningful.