2005 Volume 3 Issue 4 Pages 86-91
In these decade, urban areas have been released from pressure to expand and compact city is looked for in city planning. In this condition, it is more important to restrain sprawling residential development in the urbanization control area. Meanwhile it is said that the master plan for city planning which had been institutionalized in 1992 has not effect enough on regulating urban development because of lack of legal forces. In this paper, the case of success to check developing residential estate in the area above, making the best use of the master plan, is presented. This developing project was planned in a forest controlled urbanizing adjacent to the KOUZOUJI new-town in KASUGAI, AICHI. As a result, the project was checked, and it was decided to conserve the forest for the citizens by the city government
