Recently, many people are interested in the potential of waterfront public spaces in urban cities. “Kashi” was typical waterfront public space in Japan in the Edo era. This study focuses on three Kashi in outer edge of Edo, Honshiba-kashi, Honshibazaimokutyou-kashi, and Kanasugikawaguti-Kashi and analyses those space compositions and relationships with surrounding areas from the point of view of those space composition and ownership. These Kashi were more public than those of center part of Edo for the ratio of residents who used Kashi was higher than those. Cityscapes of Kashi were formed independently of surrounding areas and a diversity of types of architectures were confirmed depending on residents’ jobs.

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In order to consider necessary efforts for the susutain of the sustainability of Tenjin festival, we investigated the area and community of the festival. We defined the area influenced by Osaka Tenmangu Shrine as <festival area< and caught it from the four elements, area of Ujiko, festival venue, visible area, recognition area. The dominant festival area is between Osaka Tenmangu Shrine southern part and Okawa ,etc. The influence was weak in Osaka Tenmangu Shrine north, Dojima, Chiyosaki. The community focused on the organization<kou<, and investigated the actual condition of Otori Kou which is one of them. As a result, strengthening support organization by festival participation from the field of festival which is not influenced, securing Tenjin festival budget, expanding volunteer acceptance, training and acquiring Kou’s member, and community base to take over the old town name which are necessary for sustainability of Tenjin Festival.

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The volunteer activity, which is one of the new measure to conserve secondly grasslands, is gradually spreading in Japan. For extending or activating this action, we have to examine its benefits and problems while considering the present status of grassland conservation and the characteristics of work.Our questionnaire survey with people who conserve the grassland in Aso district revealed that the volunteer participants, no matter what they have no experiences, are required much more in an aging area. These results show that it is effective for the volunteer dispatch organization to grasp the number of successors or their possible work range of each area through collaboration with the administration, and to dispatch the volunteer participants who are matched in terms of number of people or ability with each area.

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Recently, due to mature society, work out policies that are conscious of the landscape resources, because of people’s awareness about the landscape is increasing. On the other hand, due to the development of smart devices and the expansion of use of social media, location data has rapidly increased. In order to create new attractiveness and value in the area, there is an increasing expectation for urban planning utilizing big data. by to comprehensively analyze texts and photographic images posted on social media, in this study, the authors are trying to analyze and evaluate landscape in tourist area from the point of view of tourists behavior.

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Changes in land use of industrial sites in the Osaka city inland were greatly changed to residential, commercial and business facilities, especially in the upper three high wards of industrial accumulation. These changes are largely attributable to the use of residential systems, although the factories that are going to continue operating in the area, as well as the reuse as factories in the site due to the relocation and the discontinuance of work are seen. As a result, mixed use of land use changes has progressed, and the maintenance of land use has become an issue in urban planning. In this research, we analyzed the relationship between the factories and factory sites that are continuing operations, in relation to the application areas, whether or not to implement the project, the infrastructure development of rivers and roads.

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The current waterfront district has multiple urban functions. The waterfront district has a favorable environment and a peculiar potential. The waterfront development utilizing these is very important in urban planning for the future. The purpose of this research is to clarify change of the district by waterfront development in Kobe-Harborland district. For that purpose, we organized the formation process and the accumulative tendency of the district. We confirmed that the target district was improved urban functions along with the development and that the district became invigorating. In addition, we confirmed that the district was crowded immediately after development, but after that transitions of facilities increased, and it became sluggish. In addition, it was possible to clarify transitions of facilities and transitions of related indices to the formation of districts, and to image the transition of the accumulative tendency.

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate quantiatively suppression effect of stormwater runoff caused by rooftop greening by the basin. This study contribute to popularization of rooftop greening and indicate new direction for reduction of urban flood disaster risk. As a result, possible area of rooftop greening in Togagawa basin is able to extract and storage effect in basin as a whole and in possible area of rooftop greening is able to calculate.It prove to store about 120,000m3 in basin as a whole and about 40,000m3 in possible area of rooftop greening.It also shows that each effect are 1/5, 1/15 of Nunobiki reservoir.In the future, other greening measures needs to prove that suppression effect of stormwater runoff is expected.It seems that to certify to be this effect and to disseminate rooftop greening is useful for reduction of urban flood disaster risk.

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In this paper, intentions of victims towards housing reconstruction and important factors in decision making on where to live and whether rebuilding own houses or living in public housing were analyzed. Data were gathered through questionnaire survey distributed and collected by mail, which was conducted three years after the earthquake. Targets were disaster victims who live in privately rented housing provided as temporary housing in Sendai after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. It was found that only half of them had the plan for permanent housing at the moment. Regarding factors related to housing reconstruction, convenience of location of houses were the evaluated most important, and the living with people of the former community was the least important.

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So far, many local governments in Japan have implemented their city plans with a focused on the growth of population. However, these days, this type of city plan is required to be considered because of current social situations such as depopulation, low birthrates, aging society and fiscal deterioration. In these circumstances, recent city plan reversed their previous policy and promote compact city by controlling urban expansion for achieving sustainable city plan. This paper introduce the case of Maizuru city in Kyoto prefecture. The Maizuru case aimed compact city by considering 'the fundamental use district readjustment in the entire city' that is based on future population prospects.

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So far, many local governments in Japan have implemented their city plans with a focused on the growth of population. However, these days, this type of city plan is required to be considered because of current social situations such as depopulation, low birthrates, aging society and fiscal deterioration. In these circumstances, recent city plan reversed their previous policy and promote compact city by controlling urban expansion for achieving sustainable city plan. This paper introduce the case of Maizuru city in Kyoto prefecture. The Maizuru case aimed compact city by considering 'the fundamental use district readjustment in the entire city' that is based on future population prospects.

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This paper focuses on the revitalization of the railway line for users fewer of local railroad and regional decline.Research purpose is to reveal the factors of the increase in the number of train users.The route for investigation considered it as 20 companies of specified local lines conversion railroads, and was analyzed using collection of statistical data, such as the number of users, and triangular diagrammatic-chart and regression analysis, multivariate analysis.The investigation route accounts for a high percentage of student use.The results of the analysis, found out that operation on the event train to which local food and liquor are offered was effective in the user's increase.As future problems, it will should have the sustainable use, and various information dispatch are important.Also these activities will lead to the revitalization of the community.

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This study aims to analyze travel behavior by users of bicycle-sharing system in the central area of Kobe City based on their GPS trajectory date on holidays. In this study, we divide users’ locations observed by GPS (recorded every 3 minutes) into moving and stopping points, and identify road sections traveled by users and places where bicycles are parked (for more than 10 consecutive minutes) so as to show characteristics of their spatial distribution on the study area. We also identify individual trip-chaining behavior from trajectory data of each user and show differences in total travel distance and time among types of trip chains.

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In order to promote the plan for historic preservation without losing historical value of each city, it is important to cooperate with other plans covering almost the same area. In this study, we focus on the relationship between approved plans for the maintenance and improvement of historic landscape in a community and those for the central city revitalization, and consider the relationship and operational situation of the plans from the viewpoint of securing historicity of each project positioned in the plans. Specifically, with respect to 19 cities that have formulated the plans, we made indexing overlapping of planning areas and contents of projects between the plans, and consider the planning operation of each city based on its scatter plot. Besides we examined concrete contents of the discussion or adjustment in the stages of plan making, project promotion, plan evaluation, and also examined the effects or challenges of overall planning through the questionnaire survey to municipal officers.

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This research has two purposes. first, it is to grasp how many historic buildings in the urban areas is conserved by the Cultural Landscape protection system. Second, it is to know the change in the number of historic buildings before and after the selection to the landscape. We found that in Uji City, Beppu City and Gihu City, some historic buildings which had not been conserved by other systems had been conserved by the Cultural Landscape protection system. Also, as a result of field survey and interview survey to Uji City, some historic buildings subject to conservation had been lost after the selection of important cultural landscapes. We found that the cause is that the Cultural Landscape protection system is a notification system concerning change of the current state of the buildings and very expensive cost for repairing buildings.

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First, we clarify the background and purpose of the research, and set up the Ashiya River special landscape district designated as a district to be particularly considered for the view from the Ashiya River and set up research methods. Second, from the questionnaire survey, we identified the viewpoints to the mountains and the sea, and we analyzed the characteristics of the viewpoints to the mountain and the sea from the analysis based on the position, place, favorite reasons and so on. Third, photographs of landscape pictures were taken from the viewpoints of mountains and the sea, and the analysis of the photographs revealed the characteristics of the viewing subject in the viewing landscape. Forth, we grasp the characteristics of the scenic view of mountains and the sea captured from the river axis, which is the scenery conservation axis connecting the mountains and the sea, and examined the way of conservation.

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This study aims at revealing the changing shipboard scenes in urban river and how people view. In order to know the dynamic viewing, testees were equipped with wearable cameras and another camera was fixed on the ship. By using the VTR taken by cameras, eye fixation features were analyzed. The results are shown as follows. (1) Testees are divided into two types, active type and inactive type respectively. The viewings of shipboard scenes are divided into 2 types, viewing along the bank and viewing along the river. (2) Simple correlations were revealed in distance from viewing objects, elevation angle and horizontal apparent angle. (3) In certain domains, viewing along the bank and viewing along the river are mixed, where time for viewing along the river by testees becomes short. Therefore, it is observed that two types of viewing influence other.

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In recent years, in order to solve the problems in environment and landscape, the number of municipalities who have enacted ordinances to control the location and design of panels is increasing. In this research, with the purpose of estimating the effects of ordinances on location control and landscape conservation, we conducted a questionnaire survey to 115 municipalities. The result showed that, even lots of municipalities agreed that the location and influences on perspective landscape are important issues when setting up panels, but the percentage of municipalities who have sensed the effects of ordinances on location control tends to be at a low level around 25%. We also found that the smaller the scale of equipment is, the harder the implementation of landscape conservation will be, but the number of municipalities who have sensed the effects tends to increase if it is implemented.

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In the Fukae district, the elevated project of the Hanshin train is carried out. The meeting for town planning and community building made performed an example investigation and a study session, questionary survey, the briefing session by inhabitants repeatedly and wrestled for the suggestion of the plan that inhabitants made and the agreement formation. The member of the meeting is residents' association, a welfare meeting, an elementary school PTA, a women's society, a public welfare children's committee, a local main inhabitants activity group including the child society. I report a role and the prospects that the meeting made with a town having the character as the comprehensive inhabitants tissue serves as

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In Hanoi city, there are lots of collective housing area called “Khu Tap The”. These housing is important part of history of Hanoi city and as one of urban housing model. However, it is start to rebuild these collective housing areas recently. This paper tries to find the relation between planning intentions and neighborhood mechanism in KIM LIEN collective housing area before all collective housing area is destroyed. For this purpose, this research investigates commercial facility and open space, and make interview to local people in KIM LIEN collective housing area.

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This study was focused on the retail store of the local facilities. We aimed to clarify the facility role for secure city planning by investigating the actual use of the utilization and utilization and the contacting function of elderly people. We investigated whether there are connections with local communities and connections with friends at stores frequently used for daily life. The supermarket seems to be a person seeking convenience and expecting a role as an interaction base. Increase in the frequency of use of various stores, rest space is greatly involved in contact with everyday life. Now that the contacts of the elderly have become weak, we found that setting up a convection space such as a break at a store is effective as a means of naturally generating contact from the viewpoint of using stores in everyday life.

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The purpose of this study is suggesting a concept model of the community based activity for landscape conservation by analyzing the case of Shioya district, Kobe city. In recent year, the concern with community activity based on its characteristic and landscape has been growing. Several studies have been made on function and role of NPOs and other citizen organizations. However, little attention has been given to clarify the process and structure of activities. What is important is to clarify the essence of process management and to show a framework of community based activity for landscape conservation. In this study, literature searching and interviews was performed to clarify the process of activity in Shioya district. It was found from the result that the importance of various community events to involve many local residents and regular meeting which has significant role about community management. These results lead us to the conclusion that community based activity for landscape conservation need the communication between various stakeholders and the existence of eager local residents.

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People significantly gather around railway station that has functions of transport node. In the space that person’s movement is especially fast, that makes a person who is in there feel that time is fast and gives tiredness the person. Such space needs comfortable places, those spaces, so development of “the third place” is one of problems that railway station has in the future. In this study, it is assumed that the third place will be focused in shopping area within a train station in the future, and the purpose of this study is to grasp current situation of the third place in railway station that has functions of transport node that some persons and facilities are gathered. From a survey, we grasped number of stores of the third place and confirmed that it was correlation with number of passengers. Besides, we confirmed that there were differences of each category of stores between applications of utilization and crowded time.

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In this study, I investigated the way of the maintenance that expressed qualities of Koya Way through the elucidation of the qualities of Koya Way caught by residents and visitors. I used PPM for investigations and asked residents along the Koya Way and students who visited the way for the first time for the photography of scenes like Koya Way and which didn’t seem to be it. As a result, residents and students photographed many landmark architectures such as wooden houses, a sake storehouse and Eboshigata Hachiman Shrine as scenes like Koya Way. Furthermore, many residents photographed furnitures that founded cedar balls and lanterns, and ksitigarbhas. Based upon the foregoing, it is thought that it is effective for the maintenance that expressed qualities of Koya Way that the cityscape formation with the united feeling by the maintenance of history resources and the insertion of the furnitures such as cedar balls.

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Compared with the Osaka Midosuji Subway Line, the Osaka-Loop-Line has fewer passengers and there are concerns that the stations are not familiar to people. In this study, we analyze the degree of recognition about the name and position of 19 stations on the Osaka-Loop-Line from the questionnaire survey. Then, we consider the features of each station and problems of the Osaka-Loop-Line. We also propose a method to visualize the degree of recognition of each station as the size of double circles.

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People significantly gather around railway station that has functions of transport node. In the space that person’s movement is especially fast, that makes a person who is in there feel that time is fast and gives tiredness the person. Such space needs comfortable places, those spaces, so development of “the third place” is one of problems that railway station has in the future. In this study, it is assumed that the third place will be focused in shopping area within a train station in the future, and the purpose of this study is to grasp current situation of the third place in railway station that has functions of transport node that some persons and facilities are gathered. From a survey, we grasped number of stores of the third place and confirmed that it was correlation with number of passengers. Besides, we confirmed that there were differences of each category of stores between applications of utilization and crowded time.

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This research studied elderly people's feeling of isolation about whether for it to become the strength and weakness of community relations to appear. We think that the stronger to engage in the local community, the weaker the sence of isolation. We aim to clarify the relationship between the elderly community and the sense of isolation. Focusing on the extent of socializing with the world and the sense of isolation, we confirmed the relationship between the elderly and the community and the sense of isolation. We found trends for each individual attribute and investigated how elderly people are involved with community relations and isolation. As a result of investigating whether isolated feeling of the elderly people appears as strength or weakness of the relationship with the community, it is important to care for connections and ties with the public in order to alleviate isolation.

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Recently, Michi-no-Eki is expected to be the area with various functions for regional revitalization in Japan. However, it might be difficult to introduce Michi-no-Eki considering regional characteristics, because the method to quantitatively evaluate the necessity of various functions has never been developed. In particular, little attention has been given to Michi-no-Eki for regional well-being which includes a supermarket, a playpark for children, a restaurant, and others.Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of local residents whose social capital are changed by introducing Michi-no-Eki for regional well-being, in order to obtain fundamental knowledge to develop the method for quantitatively evaluating the necessity of Michi-no-Eki for regional well-being.

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The increase in the vacant spaces in redevelopment buildings has become a problem in Japan.　This study is aimed at clarifying effects and problems of the public facilities introduced to the vacant spaces in the redevelopment buildings. We have conducted the questionnaire and interview survey to the municipalities in Osaka Prefecture where the urban redevelopment project and the introduction of public facilities in redevelopment buildings has been completed. Based on the survey results, the reason why public facilities are introduced into vacant space without store occupancy by municipalities has been clarified. Moreover, in order to actualize the activation of redevelopment buildings and the effective introduction for subject solution, the importance of cooperation from municipalities, management companies and private tenants has been realized.

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