JOURNAL OF RURAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION
Online ISSN : 1881-2309
Print ISSN : 0912-9731
ISSN-L : 0912-9731
Respect forfor Every-day Life in Regional Planning: A Consolidation of the Method of Its Study
Shotaro Koizumi
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1984 Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 6-10,70

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To begin, the study of regional planning is defined. The idea is not an abstract one confined to absolutes but one that has relative and variable characteristics based on every-day life. Regional planning aims to create the spaces that involve the every-day life of the inhabitants. It must promote the creativity of each person within the regional characteristics. This creativity grows with the relation between individuality and collectivity in every-day life. This idea, developing from the variable forming process of human character, makes regional planning more human.
Analytical modern science lacks human character. With modern science it is difficult to respect the inhabitants' own planning and their every-day life. So an integrated science must be established instead of modern science. However, the present state where the methodology is chaotic makes the study of every-day life difficult, for only precise analysis is valued and the functional grasp has fallen into functionalism.
Therefore, cybernetics and behavioural science are taken up, which are not based on the doctrine of elements. The results of each theory depend on its future practice as purposeful and practical science. Their ideas, wisely used, will produce human value.
To achieve this, true academic co-operation is required, which differs from so-called inter-disciplinary study. The learned societies can have a significant role to play in this process.
This kind of science evolves through the introduction of technology into the every-day activities of human beings. Hence, such a system is required to bring about the independent existence of people based on each particular area, having close connection with administration but without systematic control.
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