The purpose of this study is to clarify the contents and organization system of the resident's activity to renovate on suburban housing estates in local city. The main conclusion is as follows. (1) The suburban housing estates development in local city is more short-term and small-scale than metropolis. (2) A lot of organization system is resident autonomy organizations. However, the establishment of the NPO and private organization are still little. (3) The NPO and private organization have been concomitant in Hourai resident's area, Fukushima City. The resident is requesting the role for the resident's activity to hear the opinion.

It is widely known that the Great East Japan Earthquake caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and many places in Fukushima Prefecture were greatly contaminated by a large amount of radioactive materials. Since then, safety and security, the most basic values of our living environment, have been lost to a large extent in Fukushima, and people have been obliged to evacuate from their home or lead their daily lives under the fear of radiation effects. The revitalization of Fukushima must start with the decontamination of radioactive materials. This paper discusses actual conditions of planning activities by the 59 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture, and it discusses non-statutory decontamination plans in detail. This paper will contribute especially to make sure of planning efforts toward the revitalization of Fukushima over at least several decades.

Every country in the world promotes globalization as well as localization simultaneously. Korea aims to have all the regions strengthen a regional competitiveness. Lee Myungbak Government is pushing ahead with the 5+2 Economic Regions System as a means of new Regional Development Policy, strongly. <br>The objectives of this paper are to identify limitations of existing 5+2 Economic Regions System and to find out the facts that it is difficult for current Regional Development Policy to create competitive regions. This paper focuses on following four topics: i) direction of New Regional Development Policy, ii) delimitation of 5+2 Economic Regions, iii) role of Economic Region Development Committee, and iv) practical results of Economic Region Development Plan.<br>

The purpose of this study is to clarify the feature of local landscape resources based on landscape regulations in Tokyo 23 wards, focusing on concept which based on landscape regal systems and relation of process. First of all, we divided the landscape resources into two types which are tangible-type and intangible-type. The intangible-type includes festivals and activities etc. As a result, the percentage of tangible-type shows about 89% of the total. On the other hand, the percentage of intangible-type shows about 10% of the total and this fact shows that intangible-type generally are not valued as the composition of landscape resources. And administrative support systems intend for a tangible-type. It is necessary for landscape resources to select and assess for varying viewpoints.

Urayasu city suffered serious damage by the Great East Japan Earthquake. After this terrible incident, neighborhood associations in Urayasu city started their efforts for reducing damage and giving aid to victims. This paper deals with the activity of neighborhood association by using the questionnaire about their effort. Through this survey, we show the validity of neighborhood association at emergent incident, the validity of daily community activity, and the problems of their system and activity.

From the viewpoint of social inclusion, ensuring accessibility to essential services and opportunities, such as employment, education, health and shopping, is one of major challenges that Japanese cities face under this aging and depopulating society. This article addresses an approach, called accessibility planning, that has been taken since mid-2000s in England with the similar goal, and overviews the background in which it was advocated, its overall framework and the standard appraisal methods of accessibility. The article also reports cases of Greater London, West Midlands (Black County) and Liverpool, in which they have tried to reflect and/or incorporate quantitative accessibility appraisal into spatial planning in order to deal with inaccessibility problems not only through transport measures, but through integration with land use planning.