2024 Volume 89 Issue 815 Pages 30-41
We converted legal documents into a linked data structure constraint model and applied it to GIS parcel data to simulate the buildable volumes and trace back to the originating legal enacting terms. Our case study analyzes the fundamental legal documents in the Japanese urban planning system. Our findings reveal a contradiction in checking the road height restriction parcel-by-parcel which induces parcel amalgamation. We identified the legal articles originating this and developed the Block-Check indices to identify urban areas with stronger incentive to amalgamate. We propose Block-Check, a block-integrated method of urban regulation application, to mitigate the incentive to amalgamate.
