CONSENSUS BUILDING PROCESS OF IMPROVING CITY OFFICE ON REVIEW COMMITTEE MAKING SCHEMATIC PLAN WITH CITIZEN’S PARTICIPATION

–A comparative study on four cases in Tochigi Prefecture–

Abstract

City offices have recently been improving owing to deterioration, merger of local municipalities and demolition by the Eastern Japan Earthquake Disaster. The paper deals with 4 cases of city office renewal project. Consensus building process as well as discussing method of the review committee with citizen participation was studied. The conclusions are as follows: 1) discussion mainly focused on improving method of city office, as new construction or repair, and choosing its site in case of new construction; 2) an appraisal system for screening improving method and also choosing site is adoptable for the review committee with citizen participation.