2005 Volume 3 Issue 4 Pages 102-105
The Sagamihara New Town Land Readjustment Project was one of the twenty three newly-established industrial towns on a war footing during the 1930s, which were built throughout the nation by public land readjustment projects based upon the article 13 of Old Urban Plan Act, for local evelopment centered around military installations and for preventing damage by air strikes. The Sagamihara project that covered 1594 hectare was the largest one among these new towns. This paper is to analyze the characteristics of thisproject, and to unveil the progress and contribution of the project. This study is based upon the Urban Planning Kanagawa Local Commission's materials owned by the kanagawa Prefecture Archives.
