Abstract
Although compact city policy fields are diversifying, the existence of cross-sector benefits that signify spillover effects on other fields remains unclear. Depending on their existence, unexpected effects might have occurred in fields that local governments had not anticipated. This paper presents analyses of relations between fields of compact city policy by setting evaluation indexes to fields in which local governments are promoting compact city policy. Results show that trends of the evaluation index values vary by field. In some cases, high evaluation results are obtained in fields where local governments had not promoted a compact city policy. Furthermore, because statistically significant correlation was confirmed among the evaluation indexes set for each field, it became clear that cross-sector benefits exist for compact city policy for the first time.
