Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
In Japan, social background such as the severe financial conditions, increasing interest in the global environmental problem, the change of the needs of people requests clearer account for the investment of the infrastructure. Therefore the legitimacy of the superior plans which gives the grounds of investment on infrastructure becomes more necessary. Then, this study paid attention to the planning system in French and researched the structure and the process of them. Furthermore, the operation of the current planning system and the coordination between plans has been investigated for an example in Lyon metropolitan area. Based those researches, useful suggestions for how the planning system in Japan will be has been obtained.
