THE EVOLUTION AND DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION OF HOUSINGS FOE HINEES AFTER THE COAL MINING INDUSTEIES DECLINED : Study on rehabilitation programs of the old type of mine workers'housings (1)

Abstract

In Japan, many houses for mine workers were builf from the 1880's to the 1960's. However, since the goverment changed its energy policies in the sixties, the coal mining industries declined and mine workers who lost their jobs left the coal mining districts. In the 1970's rehabilitation programs of the district were emphasized. But in the programs, policies of housing were not developed. So many dwellers remain at the timeworn houses in coal mining districts. Since dwellers of this housings were poor, problems like a slum appeared. In Fukuoka prefecture, Project for Improving Housing was put into practice from 1967, but 345 Housing Districts remain in 1983. For this report, the author studied the evolution or renewing process of the timeworn houses in Fukuoka from 1967 to 1983. This paper is devided into three sections. In the first and second section, we consider how the old type of mine workers' housings were reduced, reorganized, or improved after the coal mining industries declined. In the third section, we apply Principal Component Analysis to a district classification of the old type of mine worker's housings.

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