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This study is aiming at discovering the development process of residents centered community of ‘Renaissance in Yokodai’ project. ‘Renaissance in Yokodai’ project is the flagship project of Urban Renaissance Agency(UR) in Japan for regenerating ‘Danchi―Japanese High-rise Apartment Complex’ starting from 2011. Through this project, UR is trying to compiling the knowhow of ‘Renaissance project 1 & 2’ and experimenting in actual suburban residential area. Area Management is method of this experiment and ‘Yokodai Area Council’ is its governmental system. ‘Yokodai Area Council’ has passed through three phases. In phase 1, UR created Network of local activities and visualized potential power of local area through workshops by having the initiative. In phase 2, UR has prepared handing over the initiative to the locals by establishing ‘MACHIMADO―the window of Yokodai’. In phase 3, ‘MACHIMADO’ stared to taking responsibility of practical business in 2021 and now residents centered community is settled. Through this study, we can find that long period of time is crucial to regenerate and rebuild community. For realizing sustainable residents centered community, even though a activity of main body from outside has initiative, in the end autochtonic and voluntary residents groups and individuals are important and they should be grown as human resources of urban regeneration. And the process of developing community is more important than deduce visualized result. Also this study wants to emphasize importance of visualized and tangible space. The regeneration of hardware is not isolated from regeneration of community. It can and should go with together.