Abstract
Many policies to promote the rural regions have been planned with their main objective being to save the overcrowded big cities, therefore, measures of dispersing the population and improving the rural regions have not been effectively successful. As a future objective, our main tasks, should be to establish policies which would recognize the rural city's raison d'etre and improve the area based on that rural area's conditions. This paper is concerned with : -1. Relations between the "Comprehensive program" and local administration. 2. Problems in the planning process of policies in autual cities. The contents of this paper are as follows : -Introduction Chap. 1. Aim and method of research. Chap. 2. The actual state and problems of the local government's planning (local government-The Ariake area of Kumamoto prefecture). 2-1 Outlook of the area. 2-2 Composition of the plan. 2-3 Check of the main items of the plan. 2-4 Procedural problems in planning. Chap. 3. Experiment in the master plan of Tamana City. 3-1 Particulars of the work. 3-2 A digest of our propose. 3-3 Fundamental conditions of the improvement program. Chap. 4. Problems of the looal goverment's planning. Conclusion.
