2014 Volume 70 Issue 5 Pages I_443-I_452
Urbanization Control Areas were introduced within the framework of City Planning Act of 1968 for the purpose of preventing unregulated urban expansion due to rapid urbanization. Garden City and Urbanization Control Areas are almost simultaneously introduced as a comprehensive plan and a urban planning method respectively in Kagawa Prefecture. This paper examines the process and impacts of the entire abolition of Urbanization Control Areas in Kagawa Prefecture at 2004, which is unprecedented in Japan. Based on the literature survey and interview survey to the planning experts, it is proved that the abolition was mainly caused by the inconsistency between “Garden City” as a regional planning vision and “Urbanization Control Areas” as a legal planning method. After analyzing the development trends and land use controls after Urbanization Control Areas abolition, the paper indicates the direction of alternative planning systems that are required for the realization of a compact city to encourage the reurbanization of the provincial cities suffering disurbanization problems.
