A Reflection upon Habitation in Central Urban Areas from the view of City-Planning History in modern ages

Abstract

This paper has the object to show the history of western urban issue after industrial revolution, and to consider the direction of urban development in Japan at the postindustrial age. In Anglo-Saxon countries, people prefer suburban housing with natural environment, but in European Continent countries, people in cities have traditionally lived in urban collective houses. How is the political difference of both countries in the developing process of urban area? Now in Japan, the opinion to live in central urban area cannot persuade all other people, and so, it cannot become principal direction. I reflect the reason why.