2013 Volume 78 Issue 694 Pages 2529-2536
After the first designation as a planned city by the City Planning Act, Gifu City had quickly expanded its limits during the early Showa era. In the first stage of Gifu City Planning Project, it was aimed to be grown as the city of manufacturing industry. According this vision the main street network was planned. The suburban parts of this street network were, however, decided to construct as the Land Readjustment Projects to save the public construction costs. After all, the landowners of the Land Readjustment Project's sites seemed not to follow the initial vision of the City Planning, but to intend to develop their lands for ideal residential areas. As the result, Gifu City experienced the major change of its planning vision from the modern industrial city to the modern city of residence and tourism at this moment. It corresponds to the fact that mayor, Kunimatsu Matsuo, with rising bureaucrats set the policy of creating such type of city as a reasonable means for arbitrating conflict with emerging middle class and traditional landowners.
