A REPORT ON THE CAREER AND URBAN PLANNING WORKS OF TAMOTSU MACHIDA, AN URBAN PLANNER

Abstract

 This report clarifies the career and urban planning works of Tamotsu Machida (1903-1967), who worked as an urban planner of the Ministry of Home Affairs before World War II (WWII) and the Ministry of Construction after WWII in Japan. The main points based on the making of his chronology and the analysis of documents written by him are as follows; 1) In Postwar Reconstruction Urban Planning, he worked as the center figure of the engineers in the War Disaster Reconstruction Institute after WWII and the Ministry of Construction by utilizing the experience and knowledge of the Tokyo Reconstruction Project after the Great Kanto Earthquake. 2) In Capital Construction Planning, he worked as a secretary general in the Committee on Capital Construction Planning. Especially, he was instrumental in Satellite city Development Plan and Metropolitan Expressway Plan in Tokyo by utilizing his experience in the prewar research on regional planning and the postwar inspection tour to the US.