Urban forest are developed as environmental measures against conversing to high rise buildings in the urban renewal projects of Act on Special Measures concerning Urban Reconstruction. Especially, environmental measures which are developed away from the urban renewal projects area are recommended by administrative bureau for improvement of urban environment. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the evaluation of the effects of improvement of urban environment with environmental measures according to the burden of high rise buildings in the urban renewal projects, and I conducted the survey by Conjoint Analysis Method on businessman in the three largest cities in Japan, and leaded the relationship between the area size of urban forest as an environmental measure and the distance from the urban renewal projects area to the urban forest.

The new survey manual for city planning basic survey was revised in June, 2013. This paper is a quick report based on the questionnaire about the situation of city planning basic survey in the all prefectures, and how to catch the officer of city planning basic survey in prefectures to the new survey manual, etc. This questionnaire mainly set questions about three themes, and it was carried out in August, 2013. The replies were obtained from all prefectures.

This paper aimed to review the need and impact assessments which are development control tools for supporting town centre first policy in UK. The town cetnre first policy was introduced in the 1990s to support town centres by restricting large retail developments outside town centres. Local planning authorities should identify the needs of consumers and allocate a range of suitable sites to meet the scale and type of retail development needed in town centres. Local planning authorities should require an impact test to an application for the out-of-centre development with over 2,500 sq m. Where an application is likely to have significant adverse impact on town centre vitality and viability, it should be refused. In Japan, review reports on the Act on Improvement and Vitalization in City Centers from 2012 proposed that the local authorities can set the network of one or more city centres in their areas. The concept of town centre first policy in UK might also be useful framework for how the network of city centres is made by city planning in Japan.

The advocates for the town management in Japan generally appreciate the physical point. In my opinion, the town is a political body which promotes the participation, the core of democracy and may lead to setting up the better governance. The gated community, the surround type of town, has generally strengthens community relationship and further assists the setup of ideal governance. In Kyoto, I wish to show how the gated community will assist on political side and how it will serve to the ecology, the infrastructure maintenance, the touring, and the crowd town area reconstruction.

Ginza is the Japan's leading commercial district where a lot of people from home and abroad enjoy shopping. Since the Taisho period (1912-1926), such a stroll for shopping in Ginza has been called "Gin-bura". In this study, focusing on the role of café in "Gin-bura", we confirm the locations of 122 cafes as well as the vertical locations and the numbers of tables, prices of a cup of coffee and smoking and Wi-Fi conditions in Ginza. It is made clear that there is the trend of location of café by area and street.