Northern Taito Ward is an area where the leather industry has located from early modern times. To incorporate the perspective of industrial structure with the discussion on the mixed-use spaces, this study disclosed the spatial characteristics of leather industry buildings (owned by individual owners) and analyzed their relationship with regional-industrial structure.

 Through field survey of 155 buildings, it found that there are 4 main types of modern urban residential-industrial mixed-use buildings in the area. From the view of area analysis, the special characteristics of the urban residential-industrial mixed-use buildings are different according to the regional-industrial structure and transition of leather industry.