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The survey on the urban layout plans for the future of local governments in the Kanto region
Kenya NakanishNorimitsu Ishii
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2012 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 83-86

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Japanese cities face some new problems such as a declining and aging population. To solve these problems, the Japanese government announces that local governments should try to change their urban layout to The Compact City. Many local governments know the concept of the compact city, but it is not clear how many local governments pursue the goal of the compact city. It is important to figure out this issue for thinking about the whole concept of the compact city and a way of promoting the compact city policy. Therefore, we carried out a questionnaire survey to figure out the urban layout plans for the future of 234 local governments in the Kanto region. This survey shows that there are some differences in ways of thinking about the urban layout between large cities and local cities.

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