Abstract
Reconsideration of public works began from the second half of the 1990s. Although it is a small number on the whole, for the region concerned, it is a matter of life or death. The construction of a regional image which keep “post” public works in mind is called for. However, such a trend is a thing “from a top”, no matter how promotion or opposition, the existing resident movement is not necessarily connected to a “new” one, as it is. I want to show some geographical points of argument from both theory and practice, by making into a case Chu-bu dam (Tottori Prefecture) and Yunotsu-town (Shimane Prefecture) at which public works stopped.
