The purpose of this article is to consider the development process of Kawasaki City’s urban administration in the firsthalf of the 20th century. In early 1910’s Kawasaki City, the industrialization have progressed rapidly and the need ofestablishment of city administration: urban planning like land readjustment and zoning, social service like housing supply.In large cities, technical bureaucrats（technocrat）who specialized in urban administration began to play an importantrole in municipal administration in the 1920’s in place of the traditional administration by famous people. On the otherhand, in Kawasaki City, human resources “regional technocrats” capable of taking charge of urban administration hadbeen growing. It was in the late 1930s and early 1940s, when the Sino-Japanese war began and munitions factoriesexpanded inland, that they actually planned and executed urban planning and housing supply. Based on the policy ofKanagawa Prefecture, they were actively involved in the Housing Company collective housing development project forlaborers, and formed the largest residential area of the Company in “Huruichiba” district. And then, the “regionaltechnocrats” that grew up during this period will play an especially important role in the postwar reconstruction
