Abstract
This study aims to indicate that the impact of vacant lands affects environmental neighborhood and the policy of local government deals the vacant lands. And this study has been applied to about 80 cities in Japan. First, this study has analyzed the ordinance for management of vacant lands at the local government. The findings have revealed that the ordinance is amounted to 70% of the subject cities. The trend of the ordinance is that the landowner has responsible for the abandonment state, the ordinance defined that the abandonment state are overgrowth weed. And the abandonment state causes the affects environmental neighborhood that insanitary, fire, security, appearance and induces to dump rubbish. The measures with local government for the vacant lands are mainly that administrative guidance. Thisstudy has indicated that the guidance is not worked when landowner is disappearing.
