In these decade, urban areas have been released from pressure to expand and compact city is looked for in city planning. In this condition, it is more important to restrain sprawling residential development in the urbanization control area. Meanwhile it is said that the master plan for city planning which had been institutionalized in 1992 has not effect enough on regulating urban development because of lack of legal forces. In this paper, the case of success to check developing residential estate in the area above, making the best use of the master plan, is presented. This developing project was planned in a forest controlled urbanizing adjacent to the KOUZOUJI new-town in KASUGAI, AICHI. As a result, the project was checked, and it was decided to conserve the forest for the citizens by the city government

In recent years, attention is being given to community design that makes the most of the water environment of towns and cities on rivers, canals, moats, waterways, lakes and seas, and the development and revitalization of these waterside spaces. Across the country, various projects to harness the distinctive characteristics of these areas have been promoted vigorously. Examples of such projects include waterfront community design in water-abundant districts such as the valleys of large rivers, and waterfront areas of lakes and sea shores, and community design for cities on water that utilizes the rivers, canals and moats in urban districts. In this paper, the author will treat examples of cities in which community design is taking place that makes the most of their regional characteristics as waterfront areas and their history and traditions related to water, with the aim of grasping their distinctive characteristics.

Final purpose of the research is to clarify how social infrastructure plans had been built in Japan. This paper aims at showing clearly how the social change affected the developing urban infrastructure in Japan. It follows the changes of the public organization which has improved urban infrastructure over a half-century since 1955, contrasting with the social change. By dividing from the 1950s every ten years, it was able to offer to clarify the social conditions of the period, the transition of the organization of the government agency in Japan, the contents of the urban infrastructure, and the relationship between social changes and the contents of the improving urban infrastructure plans has been grasped. As examples, past and current urban development cases in Japan are studied.

The Sagamihara New Town Land Readjustment Project was one of the twenty three newly-established industrial towns on a war footing during the 1930s, which were built throughout the nation by public land readjustment projects based upon the article 13 of Old Urban Plan Act, for local evelopment centered around military installations and for preventing damage by air strikes. The Sagamihara project that covered 1594 hectare was the largest one among these new towns. This paper is to analyze the characteristics of thisproject, and to unveil the progress and contribution of the project. This study is based upon the Urban Planning Kanagawa Local Commission's materials owned by the kanagawa Prefecture Archives.

The authors present a report on the results of their survey the transportation facilities and communication in Kyoto city.They are summarized as follows: 1.According to the trends of People`s trip for visual effect in the last 20 Years, It is hard to say that they take wings. 2.Form the transportation facilities and communication research, the project which makes to go out conveniently for the blind or visually impaired people is still far from being finished. 3.In the process of promotion for universal design, people come to know the knowledge about coexistence issue between the blind and the ordinary people which will be radical.

This paper aimed to propose a method to combine automatically road networks divided by surrounding frameworks and municipal boundary for urban analysis. We need to integrate the road network data because most of spatial data are usually divided by surrounding frameworks and municipal boundary. In addition, there is no unique attribute data to combine the road data using Geographic Information System (GIS). We consider not only the topological data like the degrees of nodes, but also the attribute data in relation to surrounding frameworks. At first, we survey the available digital maps which include polyline data of road networks and the effect of file divide. Then we develop the algorithm to combine automatically and apply the tool to the digital maps 2500 and 25000 of the Geographical Survey Institute, Japan.