The Urban Infrastructure Plans in the Government Agency in Japan after the Second World War

A Study on the Idea and Realization of New Social Infrastructure Plans in Japan

Abstract

Final purpose of the research is to clarify how social infrastructure plans had been built in Japan. This paper aims at showing clearly how the social change affected the developing urban infrastructure in Japan. It follows the changes of the public organization which has improved urban infrastructure over a half-century since 1955, contrasting with the social change. By dividing from the 1950s every ten years, it was able to offer to clarify the social conditions of the period, the transition of the organization of the government agency in Japan, the contents of the urban infrastructure, and the relationship between social changes and the contents of the improving urban infrastructure plans has been grasped. As examples, past and current urban development cases in Japan are studied.