Abstract
This paper suggests establishing an open lecture on public development to make consensus building process more efficient. We conducted content analysis to the conference note of civil meeting concerning a new project of a subway construction in Sendai city, in order to understand present circumstance of consensus building process. As a result of the analysis, it was showed that citizens in Sendai city were concerned with following topics; 1) fairness of consensus building process, 2) financial condition of the city and project cost, 3) assertion of incredibility against the administration, and so on. In addition, it was also showed that about 20 percent of all questions were unimportant as much as avoided, if people have basic knowledge of civil engineering. Hence, if unnecessary questions are decreased by that people learn knowledge of infrastructure management in an open lecture, constructive argument will increase and the process will be mode efficient. Consequently, it is concluded that we should establish an open lecture system on infrastructure development and we should supply the opportunities to learn the knowledge of public management for citizens.
