2006 Volume 20 Issue 2 Pages 60-73
Recently, population and business establishments decrease, the number of empty stores was conspicuous in town center. The purpose of this paper is to point out that large retailer regulations with regard to suburban location do not revitalize town center. We make a survey of the process of three laws of town planning and the present in regional economy and analyze the basis of an argument for regulations with regard to suburban location. Moreover, we discuss a primary factor that town center fall into a decline and the effectiveness of countermeasure for revitalization of town.