Present Condition of Vacant House Plots in Peripheral Suburb in Hokusetsu-Area Part 1 : Case of Nose-Cho (Osaka) and Kameoka-Shi (Kyoto)

This paper aims to report present condition of the “peripheral suburban residential area” in Osaka. These residential areas, which were developed about 40 years ago, are facing to deterioration of living environment by vast of vacant lots. We can find over 40% of housing plots are vacant, and about its 70% of lots are not in use and ruined. On the other hand, we were also able to find examples of effective uses, and 50% of un-used lot will be able to use as a new spatial resource.