2017 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 1-11
Established in 2014, the urban facility location plan was designed to promote the “compact city plus network” concept. After giving an overview of the background and content of this plan, this paper organizes problem points in the creation and implementation of an urban facility location plan from the perspective of geography. In this study, I organized the problem points in terms of the boundaries of the area to which an urban facility location plan applies, establishing urban functions in relation to the hierarchy of urban areas in which the functions are to be induced and to the locational variations in land-use regulations. What these problem points have in common is the boundaries of the area set by an urban facility location plan. Although the plan calls for its creation using the boundaries of a metropolitan area, because the plan area and the metropolitan area do not match, efforts to achieve compact cities will be limited to municipalities, the bodies responsible for creating the plans. This is a fundamental problem underlying the urban facility location plan. It can be said that the problem demonstrates the rigidification of the city planning system, in which the urban planning area cannot be reorganized or changed.
