Hyogo Prefecture established “Special Designated Zoning” on the basis of the amendment of City Planning Law in 2000 which has enabled the flexible operation of the development permission system. This “Special Designated Zoning” of Hyogo Prefecture is making the cooperative use between the development permission system and municipal land-use planning.
This article reports the general description of the establishment and the applied cases of “Special Designated Zonig” in Hyogo Prefecture.

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The organization formation and the activity by various people concerned are indispensable on the urbanized society, and the consensus building in multi stakeholders becomes the key to regional management. This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the execution system of the soft-projects management by the pertnership of multi stakeholders. As a conclusion, three soft-projects management are executed by the gathering of several shopping street organizations. The points of the achievement are as follows ; (1) the consensus and cooperation between shopping street organizations are established, (2) TMO that bears public interest was established and managed by previous mutual agreement, (3) the execution system that adjusts to the problem and the purpose has been established.

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A construction industry is very important in Japan. But those conditions show a tendency to be bad.
By the way, the project called Community Type Construction Enterprise is being done in Sapporo City. This project is the activity by the construction industry which made community a theme. The purpose of this paper is a announcing content of a series of this project. Through this project, the profit of the enterprises which participated showed a tendency to be raised, a new type of industry seems to be born. I found out that trust was important, and so on.

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Construction planning is performed usually after the design has been completed. If the construction planning can be performed in the early stages of design, it will be more effective for optimization of the whole process including both design and construction. The author proposes a concept that enables simulation of multiple construction plans in the design phase. The important technology is the construction method template, which describes generic construction method knowledge. The author's system applies multiple templates to a single design in order to estimate, schedule and visualize the project. This report details description of the construction method template.

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This report investigated cultural assets in Nagasaki, Shitsu-Kyuzyoin. I analyzed how processed tea work was performed mainly. As a result, I discovered a new element to appoint modern architecture in cultural assets. As for it, industry and relations with a building were important. I was able to show it as one of the important elements. Processed tea work in Zyusanzyou increases a new viewpoint in historicalness of cultural assets. This is an important report to be able to be said to be discovery of a development.

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This report is the result of investigation of existing lighthouses in southern Sakhalin which were built during the Japanese period (1905∼1945). In southern Sakhalin, ten lighthouses including one beacon light were built during the Japanese period. Seven lighthouses were exist, six of them were in operation. These lighthouses are Lopatina (former Kenushi, 1918), Tonin (former Airo, 1935), Aniva (former Nakashiretoko, 1939), Lamanon (former Chirai, 1940), Slepikovsky (former Konotoro, 1943) and beacon light of the Rock of Danger (former Nijyouiwa, 1926). All of them were constructed by reinforced concrete. Moreover, houses for lighthouse keeper built in Japanese period are used now. We hope that these modern heritages for Japan and Russia will be preserved.

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SUIBARA Torazo shop, built in 1877, has been known as the first ‘Western-Style’ civil architecture in Sapporo. Akihisa ENDO tried to examin this building from an old photograph and historical materials owned by the Archives of Hokkaido. I newly discoverd the general plans of this building at the Archives of Hokkaido and Northern Studies Collection of Hokkaido University Library. I could fine the similarity of details between this building and the buildings built by Kaitakushi or the plates of pattern books published in USA in the 19th century former owned by Kaitakushi, i. e. this building must be designed by the staves, such as Yoshiyuki ADACHI, the chief engineer, of Engineering Department of Kaitakushi. The ‘Western-Style’ architecture, composed of refering pattern books, differs from the ‘Pseudo-Western-Style’ architecture, built by Japanese carpenters who imitate the surferical ‘Western-Style’ architecture.

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The Waseda University team has carried out a conservation work for the layered stone structure on the slope of the Abusir-South hill in 2006 season. The structure was probably erected in the Third Dynasty, which period is known as a time of the realization of stone structure in Ancient Egypt.
Since weathering of the upper surface of the structure was severe and a large number of the blocks appeared to have been flaking, the upper surface of the structure was covered with not only sand but also a kind of mortar mixed with clay, sand, and slaked lime in order to detain sand accumulation. The mortar was stabilized by hammering.
It is expected that above conservation work will prevent further deterioration of the layered stone structure for years to come.

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It reports because the case where the technique of the stock management is used for the Government office buildings in Hokkaido was completed by two examples of the finish of the adjustment of the long tract of years and the view and the problem in the future are considered. Date Government Bldg and Hakodate public employment security office.

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This paper deals with the process of renovation of a storehouse to cultural facility, named Jyurokuban-Souko, built in 1910, and with the citizens activity for preservation and use of it. Additionally, in this report, we describe problems on the side of the management, importance of connection and subsidy system in local society and so on.

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Comprehensive research of war related sites in Okinawa Prefecture was conducted from 1998 to 2006 and comprehensive research of modernization heritage in 2002 and 2003 was conducted by the prefectural board of education.
According to the result of the research, characteristics of war related sites in Okinawa prefecture are as follows.
1) Most of the war related sites have circumstances of battles during the Battles of Okinawa
2) Most of the war related sites are underground structures and structures on the ground are limited because of the destruction by ground battles.

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The enhancement of the working life of buildings is an important issue with regard to global environmental problems. The aim of this study is to evaluate the optimum working life of buildings so that the integrated evaluation, which considers both the cost and the CO₂ emission, becomes minimum during a given evaluation period. In order to achieve this objective, the quantitative evaluation of the damage risk due to earthquake and LCCO₂ is conducted by using the seismic risk management method.

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This paper aims at technological studying of multiple application method as common sharing platform for several space-time data. Untile now, almost several existing spatial data were made and managed separately using each specialized software such as CAD/CG or GIS. Google Inc. released the virtual globe program “Google Earth” (GE) on June of 2005. This program is available to everyone and it can easily handled by general user. We developed some original data converter and actually exported several format spatial data such as 3D objects, raster image and GPS tracking log data to GE. This tool is expected as useful communication tools for collaborative planning.

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In Osaka City University, Graphic Science Education has been located as design language education constructed by knowledge and technique which facilitate intelligible communication making good use of diagrams. However, the effect of light flow is not sufficiently considered comparing to shape factor though light flow also give great effect to the works. Author believes that consideration of light flow is highly significant because the same shapes can give different impression with different lighting environment. Accordingly author introduced the assignment which design lighting equipment making use of CSG model. In this paper, consistency between the class with lighting equipment design and the past class, submitted works and evaluation of the assignment by students themselves are explained. Finally, the result of text data analysis for submitted works are described to show the impact of the works. Total byte of each submitted works and result of keywords search were examined to evaluate the impact. From these analysis, author conclude that lighting equipment design could raise the incentive to construct works of CSG model and the effect of the assignment also influenced the final works which were submitted after lighting equipment design assignment.

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Web based e-learning system is developed for the education of structural dynamics for University students and for the dissemination of disaster prevention for the society people. This system shows the dynamic response of the 2-dofs lumped mass system. It is possible to easily make a virtual experiment on a web browser. User can produce the seismic ground motion by dragging the ground with the mouse right and left on the browser. The ground can also be shaken by the observed earthquake wave in the database. User can freely make an experiment using various variables. The students easily understand the dynamic phenomena of structure through the combination of formulation, graph, and the experiments using this software.

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A new type of interactive interface is developed for e-learning system of disaster mitigation activities. The system can understand natural language communication by use of the knowledge base on earthquake disaster mitigation. The originally developed knowledge base is implementing knowledge structure and scenario flow, and is able to navigate e-learning system. By use of this interface, smooth and arranged access for the large amount of web contents is developed, and it is effective for every user for their easy comprehension about the importance of disaster mitigation.

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Since great earthquakes significantly affecting coastal regions are expected to occur in the near future in Japan, tsunami shelters are of highest priority to mitigate casualties by earthquake-induced killer waves. Although the design guidelines recently developed by a task committee under the Japanese Cabinet Office propose design loads for practical shelter design, they are fundamentally based on laboratory tests but not on damage observations. In this report, structures that experienced the Indian Ocean tsunami caused by the 2004 Sumatra Earthquake were surveyed, and the relationship between their damage, strengths, and tsunami height is quantitatively investigated to examine the design load proposed in the guidelines.

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The purpose of this research is to clarify the damage of the small and medium-sized companies in recent large earthquakes by mailing questionnaires and hearing.
The main results are summarized as follows:
1) The large building damage broke out from the seismic intensity 5+, and increased from the seismic intensity 6+,
2) The building damage loss of the large companies were bigger than the small companies,
3) There were a lot of machine damages caused by slide in the case of the manufacturing,
4) In the case of small companies, the building damage loss accounted for over 10% of the gross sales.

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The regions of West and Northwest off Hokkaido are situated on the boundary of two major plates of Okhotsk and Eurasian, and an occurrence of repeating earthquake is expected. The author had revealed details of damages due to the Off-Kamuimisaki Earthquaken of 1940 which was the largest one occurred in these regions. Continuing to the previous paper, literature surveys were carried out through documents and newspaper articles to the damaging earthquakes in these regions. damages due to other earthquakes were listed and discussed.

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Hidaka district, Southern Hokkaido is known as high seismic area and had been damaged due to earthquakes of the 2003 Tokachi-oki, the 1982 Urakawa-oki, the 1952 Tokachioki and so on. As for these large earthquakes detailed damages can be traced through many reconnaissance reports. However other earthquakes which caused damage to this region are not surveyed in systematically. In this paper, 7 damaging earthquakes are investigated through newspaper articles and related documents and detailed damages are listed by local municipalities. Many unknown damages can be revealed.

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The present study investigated the use of snow melting machines by community groups responsible for snow removal during periods of heavy snowfall. Snow melting was carried out using two types of snow melting machines installed at public facilities in the city of Tokamachi, which was hit by heavy snowfall in 2006. Data regarding the efficiency and cost of snow melting was collected and analyzed. The results showed that the use of snow melting machines is efficient and cost effective for snow removal during heavy snowfall.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the evaluation of the public support for the reconstruction of the houses damaged by the 2004 Mid Niigata Earthquake. This housing reconstruction system was not adequate enough to satisfy the demands of people and local officers in rural areas damaged by the earthquakes. People want to ease regulations requirement, complicated procedures for public support and so on for rebuilding and repairing the houses.

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