ANALYSIS ON THE RULE-SETTING OF THE TOWNSCAPE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CITIZENS : the Case of "Lenami-Kijun", or House-Arrangement Standards in Shin-Nagata Station North District, Kobe City

Our research, taking the Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Machizukuri Area, a general city area, as a model case, came to the following conclusion ; (1) The rule-setting of the townscape, followed and applied by the citizens, will develop, according to the community development. (2) Activities the citizens themselves practice in order to make the rules applied smoothly will promote the formation of a community. (3) As the supporting system of the rules to make the community development promoted successively and prosperously, it is effective to use both "strict rules" under the law and "flexible ones" under the leadership of the citizens