Examination of the Important Viewpoint of Housing Policy for Re-maintenance of Central City Area and Conversion of Urban Structure of Small or Medium Size Cities

Analyzing from Housing and Dwelling Master Plan on Higashi-Mikawa etc. District in Aichi Prefecture

Abstract

The Housing and Dwelling Policy under the Basic Act for Housing is examined in two cities - Higashi Mikawa and Nishi Mikawa. I analyzed the questionnaire that each city carried out for its citizens. The contents were examined as to whether it is effective that the existence of a railroad station may collect a city area. The results are that citizens living around the central station in these cities highly evaluated the convenience of a station and the facilities of shopping or medical treatment. Also citizens aren’t willing to move the circumference of a station. It is not necessarily effective that there is a station as a base which collects a city area.