Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
The first purpose of this study is to investigate the best allotment, between prefectures and municipalities, of the authority to decide city planning. After the First Decentralization Reform, the situations of the allotment of the authority aren't clear. So, this study aims to clarify it at first. In this study, the following things were clarified. Some kinds of city planning are decided by only prefectures, some kinds of city planning are decided by only municipalities, and other kinds of city planning are allotted and decided by prefectures and municipalities. And the authority of the city planning decision has been gradually transferred from prefectures to municipalities after 1990's. At the end of this thesis, six points under discussion were presented to investigate the best allotment of the authority.
