This study aims to clear the effect of green curtain by a questionnaire survey which was conducted against residents in the apartment building owned by Urban Renaissance Agency. There are many high agers in the questionnaire participants, and we can get the result that green curtain do not have the effect of only improving the thermal living environment, but also increasing the satisfaction by bringing up cultivars and improving the windowscape. And, it was cleared that the higher age participants had opened the sliding doors and windows than the lower age participants when installing green curtain. It is very important that there are different behaviors of participants according to ages when installing green curtain on the thinking of spreading green curtain.

Just as motorization has altered the urban form, the growing popularity of the internet is likely to transform the urban form again to a fundamental degree. An “internet-conscious city plan” that includes such a transformation must be considered. This study specifically addressed check-in actions on SNS for records of special experiences, and systematically analyzed the distribution, amount, and quality of spots. Additionally, the study examined results from an existing plan of core areas for a compact city. Results clarified that some cities accumulate check-in actions in core areas, but others do not. Questionnaire survey results show that sufficient consideration must be devoted to the internet in future city planning.

Now urban planning system which supported in limited resources requires to respond to many problems, such as depopulation, aging, disaster, and environmental issues. Interdivisional cooperation is very important when only one office cannot solve those problems by itself. This study analyzed characteristics and effects of communication among several administrative posts through proceedings of conferences held at the satellite city. Results showed that the offices except the city maintenance office gave very few comments relatively and most of them were limited such as requests and feedbacks but not suggestions. The communication styles are classified by different kind of categories such as "Exchange of Questions and Answers", "Sharing", and "one way communication".

Urbanized area has been expanding around Tokyo since Kanto earthquake disaster in 1923. Some of them are planned development, the others are urbanized on farm fields to become urban sprawl. Hundreds of planned developments have been listed without its geographical area. Generally these area have wider road than 4m regulated by the Building Standards Act, and it help us to distinguish planned urbanized area from urban sprawl area. In this study planned urbanized area and urban sprawl area around Tokyo are estimated with road width data of Digital map (National land basic information). Then the characteristic of their distribution are analyzed with the decade when these area were urbanized.

Ordinance of article 34-11 of city planning law promotes development around urbanization promotion area to delay development in the area. In this study, developed area are counted with an open data "National land numerical information: Land utilization segmented mesh data" for data availability. It indicate land use category by 100m mesh. 2,654 mesh have been changed its land use to building site from 1997 to 2009 in Mito city. Only 40% of them are in urbanization promotion area and 33% are around the area permitted by the ordinance. It also delay a new town development in urbanization promotion area to bankrupt its developer.

In recent years, shifting to the Compact City on provincial cities in Japan has been advocated because of some serious reasons such as an effective investment into social capital. However, it has not been clear what kind of issues still remain in terms of shifting to the Compact City moderately on these cities. The purpose of this study is to clarify the planning issues of nowadays in provincial cities through the literature review on city structures. Here we focused on papers of the Society of Civil Engineers and the Japan Society of Urban Planning, which were published in 1995-2012. As a result, it was found that there are some lacking viewpoints on shifting to the Compact City in provincial cities.

The purpose of this study is to discuss the real estate evaluation index that reflects the local value. We investigated the R real estate which attract attention in the real estate business with a new evaluation in recent years, the point of view of real estate evaluation, and about the business model. Characteristic of real estate evaluation of R real estate was that delves into local resources, and have appreciated the uniqueness of the local and the cityscape. Attractiveness of local-specific, situation in the local, the difference of what their customers demand has been largely reflected in the evaluation indicators in inter-regional comparison of Boso,Inamuragasaki and Tokyo R real estate. In addition, the evaluation of this point of view, that there is a possibility to discover the value of the area that has been overlooked is revealed in Yokosuka Shioiri study.

This study aims to examine the value recognition of the living around the railway station as the basic information to promote TOD at the local city. The results obtained through the analysis of the questionnaire survey data to the residents are as follows: 1) A lot of residents are recognizing the high value of living around the railway station in terms of place attachment etc. 2) The value recognition of the living is influenced by not only individual attributes such as the use of the railway but also affirmative image of the existence value of the station. 3) Finally, the whole structure of the value recognition is derived by applying the Covariance Structure Analysis.

In disaster-affected areas, lots of elderly people are said to reduce their frequency to go out due to the change of living environment. In such areas, it is necessary to provide environment for communication to activate them so that they can keep good health. For this purpose, in Kamaishi city, a new public transportation service, Demand Responsive Transport, was introduced after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, whose effect is found limited so far. Therefore, to clarify the environment to activate elderly people and to verify its effects, we conducted a semi-structured interview survey and suggested two ways to activate them by relieving their sense of

In this paper, by analyzing issues surrounding the environmental plan, proposed a new perspective of environmental plan, and analyzed the characteristics of the plan based on its viewpoint in 5 municipalities case-study. In the first, as the nature of the sustainable development plan in staying philosophy level, and there is no specific measures. Second, there are few plan which link integration substantially to comprehensive plan. Third, the unification of the inspection and evaluation management system has also been limited. Fourth, the effects are limited civil participation in promoting stage instead of developing stage.