- Author
- Horiuchi, S.
- Title
- Investigation into the Actual Condition of Folding Fire Escape Ladders Installed in the Balconies of Highrise Apartments.
- Coporate
- Kansai Univ., Osaka, Japan
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources. Fire Research and Safety. 6th Joint Pnale Meeting of the UJNR Proceedings. May 10-14, 1982., Building Research Inst., Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo/Tsukuba, Japan, 191-202 p., 1983
- Keywords
- human behavior | high rise buildings | apartments
- Identifiers
- tall buildings; high rise apartments; mansions
- Abstract
- Recently, the number of highrise apartments which are about ten stories high and so called mansion in Japanese are increasing in the central districts of large cities in Japan. This trend may be explained that, on the one hand, the owners of small and expensive urban land will try to build tall buildings to pay off their cost and, on the other hand, those people who will choose downtown apartments near to their offices rather than suburban single-family houses requiring long commuting time are increasing.