This article reports the results of a web survey on citizen’s attitude towards CCTV installed in public places, comparing with the results of a survey conducted 11 years ago. While expectations to reduce fear and support criminal investigation increased, those to reduce crime decreased. Though anxiety about privacy invasion decreased, there was still considerable percentage of citizens who opposed to CCTV installation by neighbors in the immediate vicinity.

This article shows the Transition activities in the community of Ungersheim in France. Ungersheim is known for several types of commitments with regard to sustainable development, including climate change, fair trade, local currency, renewable energy, and biomass boiler. The community has its own local development plan composed of three pillars, namely intellectual autonomy, energy independence, and food sovereignty. This article focuses on their 21 action plans and analyzes the importance of the mayor’s initiative and participatory democracy for realizing transition community.

The purpose of this study is to identify issues to revitalize the central urban area of Aizuwakamatsu City. We conducted questionnaire surveys to business operators and visitors of Nanokamachi Street where is one of the main street of the city. Vacant stores utilization projects, streetscape improvement projects and electric wires undergrounding projects have been implemented in areas along the street. Through the above questionnaire surveys, it became clear that business operators and visitors evaluate shops, sidewalk and streetscape as results of these projects highly. This study points out it is important to increase benches for the central urban area revitalization in the future.

The purpose of this study is to identify issues of rebuilding housing in land readjustment project areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Although land readjustment projects have been implemented in 47 districts of 19 municipalities, the average utilization ratio of residential lots is 43% and more than half of residential lots are vacant lands in about two thirds of 47 districts as of October 2018. It is necessary to discuss the vision of future districts and its achievement methods again based on such situations that landowners and municipalities could not imagine when they decided to implement land readjustment projects.

The purpose of this study is to clarify current status and issues concerning public transportation in 12 municipalities affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster after the lift of evacuation orders. Most of returnees are healthy elderly persons. They worry about becoming unable to drive a car in near future although they go to shopping centers or hospitals located in neighboring municipalities by car at present. It is necessary to develop the sustainable public transportation system in each municipality and to discuss the regional public transportation system by collaboration of municipalities and the Fukushima Prefectural Government.

This study clarifies current status and issues of school in the 12 municipalities affected by nuclear disaster in Fukushima after the lift of evacuation orders. It clarifies that (1) elementary schools and junior high schools have been reopened in 10 municipalities where evacuation orders were lifted, (2) the number of students has decreased significantly, (3) the number of students attending schools located in areas where evacuation orders were lifted is less than the number of students attending schools of the evacuation destinations located in other municipalities, and (4) most schools located in areas where evacuation orders were lifted have problems concerning students, teachers, facilities, classes and school events. This study points out that it is important to develop institutional and financial conditions to solve the above problems.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the actual situation and issues of resumption and establishment of businesses after the lift of evacuation orders in the areas affected by Fukushima nuclear disaster. This study reveals that (1) the number of businesses has decreased significantly since the nuclear accident occurred, and (2) most managers of businesses which have resumed or established in the areas that evacuation orders were lifted think that the business environment has not been recovered and employees have been lacking. Based on these results, this study points out that it is necessary to provide subsidies for operation of businesses and to develop local economy revitalization programs by collaboration of business managers, local groups, municipalities, the prefectural government office, and the national government.

Recently, administration of absentee and inherited properties is applied to cope with problematic vacant properties in Japan. However, with comparison of vacant property receivership in USA, Japanese administration system has several shortcomings: 1) coverage of administration of vacant properties is limited, 2) petition requires tedious works to show renunciation of inheritance, 3) a petitioner has to pay deposit which may not be paid back, 4) a receiver has to administrate properties beside a vacant house, 5) receiver candidates are limited to legal experts who are not familiar to city planning, 6) finance of repair and/or demolition is difficult; and 7) distribution priority of sales proceed of vacant property is not legally determined.

This study aims to extract the problems of grocery shopping and consider effective measures in a residential area located at fringe of Tokyo 23 wards. A questionnaire survey was conducted at Takashimadaira area in Itabashi ward, which contained large housing complexes and detached houses. We analyzed respondents’ shopping behavior, satisfaction with the stores and effects of countermeasures. The results showed respondents in housing complexes districts had fewer problems because even elderly people could reach to enough stores in quality by walk or bicycles. By contrast, respondents in detached housing districts dissatisfied with the accessibility due to lack of stores in the districts. To counter this problem, we found that living near children could alleviate difficulties, even though other services did not have significant effect. The results suggested that these shopping support services were only complementary ones and it was better to secure the access to grocery stores that kept enough quality of items.

For increasing citizen participation, it is very important to give more chance for citizen to have attachment to the own town. Therefore, we carried out a workshop to junior high school students for having them know the town and rediscover the attractiveness. The workshop was held in Matsuno Town, Ehime Prefecture. In the workshop, we had the participants experience town management by giving lectures on city planning and activity of wandering about the town and proposing a sightseeing course for strangers. As a result, junior high school students answered that they could discover and reaffirmed the attractiveness of the town. For increasing citizen participation, it is found important to walk around the town to face the current condition, get a point of view for the appearance of the town and have attachment to the one’s own town.

The 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami affected 61 municipalities in six prefectures located along the northeast coast of Japan. Although each affected area devised its own post-tsunami recovery plan according to its situation, some of them had faced difficult situation to realize the recovery plan. Yuriage, Natori City, is one of the most serious areas facing problems with residents’ agreement and had taken a long time to determine the final recovery policy. This paper reports how they developed the recovery plan based on literature investigation and interviews to stakeholders in order to extract some findings useful for future urban recovery.

Today, people movement data collected from mobile phones are used for providing various services or for marketing. However, there are not many studies investigating pedestrian density and speed using such data. In this research, we mainly used XY point data from smart phone and digital map of road center line. As a result of the analysis, we revealed the relation of street network configuration, potentials from a railway station, land use, street form such as width or length, to the density and the speed of pedestrians using correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results of these analyses provide the model of how we walk in urban space and can be applied to urban planning, urban development or store opening planning.

The aim of this research is to analyze the relation between location of facilities in cities/areas and unplanned purchasing by consumers based on the hypothesis that the difficulty to reach shopping facilities from home has a positive correlation with buying intentions. To this end, the visitor information obtained by a questionnaire survey in an outlet mall around the Metropolitan area was analyzed using Hayashi’s second method of quantification and logistic regression analysis. With regard to the location of facilities in cities/areas, this research focused on transport-related factors including travel time from home to facilities and traffic conditions. As for the unplanned purchases the research focused on purchasing the intended goods beyond the budget and purchasing unintended goods.

This study was conducted to clarify the characteristics of the Old New Town in the Compact City Strategy and the Actual Condition and Problem of the Nankai Housing estates in Hannan City, an old new town outside the residential induction area. Results show the following major findings. 1) Of the 22 municipalities targeted by the survey, 20 municipalities designated Old New Town as a residential induction area. 2) In Old New Town, which is outside the residential induction area, elderly people also use cars, so it is necessary to maintain local transportation. 3) In the survey area, more than 70% of the residents are willing to settle. However, the possibility of living with relatives is biased by region. In the future, in consideration of the possibility of living together etc., a proposal of a residential area image matched to the regional characteristics in the area is required.

A redevelopment building improves safety and urban function, on the other hand city turn into standardization and become less attractive. In addition, recently it tends to maintain old building than rebuild a new one. This paper clarifies the process of redevelopment and architectural form of Mikasa Shopping Street located in the downtown of Yokosuka City. It was constructed in 1959 as fireproof buildings belt and a redevelopment building. We examine history and originality of its redevelopment at that time. Through the research, it is intended to suggest what redevelopment should be.

In Tokyo, the development of high rise buildings are showing a trend of clustering to particular districts. Therefore, the cumulative impacts on urban environment should be measured in addition to the individual impact to address the actual impact caused by the combination of multiple developments. However, the current environmental impact assessment (EIA) system in Japan only evaluates the impact of individual developments, which may lead to the underestimation of the cumulative impacts of the multiple buildings. In this research, we have measured or accumulated the cumulative environmental impacts of the clustered multiple high-rise developments located near Musashi-Kosugi Station in the City of Kawasaki. We have made clear that the current EIA system needs to be improved be able to measure the cumulative impacts and to streamline the procedures for future development elsewhere. This research should help improve the current EIA system

This research aims to clarify the actual situation of the cities which had taken actions in the face of population decrease in Germany. The paper focused on a problem from the side of government, specifically, "Restructuring of living environment ", "Profit utilization in vacant lots and houses" and "The way of civic collaboration ". Reviews of the literatures and interviews in the cities found the following: The city planning for population decrease was made by switching technique and idea of the conventional plan. Additionally, the system which promoted vacant lots and houses use were created, it contributed to the improvement in potential attraction of the city. These efforts were given full weight to discussions with citizen.

In England, developments in flood risk areas were restricted by taking advantage of unique development control system. Information of “Sequential Approach” and “Exception Test” system by PPS25 is quite known in Japan, although understanding of the actual operation and application of the system is still vague. Therefore, in this study, documents of 8 actual review cases of 3 cities were accumulated through internet and studied. Through investigations of the documents, indications from past Japanese research papers were confirmed with examples, such as implementation of flexible and comprehensive measures through planning permission system, practical land use control implementation through comparison of risk and profit of development, and conflict and coordination between urban development and disaster prevention.