It was identified terraced land use change and analyzed the relationship with irrigation management systems in a terraced paddy landscape in Hokudan-cho, Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Central Japan. As the result, the land use change from 1963 to 2000 was dominated by the decrease of paddy field into other utilizations. It became clear that the social factors which cannot be seen directly in the field induced influences on the pattern of landscape change and the land management in the two types of irrigation system. Customary social rules which contained in Tazu system were strongly contributed to the sustainability of the paddy fields.

recently, the regulations of cityscape have been made by many local governments. The law of cityscape was made by congress at this year. We were interested in our cityscape for some years ahead. However, there were not a common concept for our cityscape images in governments, enterprises and citizens without someone. So, the model of projects that is able to develop sustaining beautiful cityscapes, have to be built. Private entertainments are not suited to main stakeholder in these projects. Urban development corporation and housing supply corporations are suited to these projects. Because they are entertainments to be controlled by governments and they will have many housing redevelopment projects as landmark in a city plan. This paper analysis the roles and practices of urban development corporation and housing supply corporations for developing sustainable beautiful cityscape under housing redevelopment projects.

The decline of specific local industries together with the dual effects of depopulation and an aging society have led to a loss in many rural areas of economical and social vigor. In an attempt to redress this situation, many regions in Japan are trying to develop a variety of enterprises aimed at regional reactivation and regional promotion. In recent years, many regions have been making active use of the Internet to transmit information about their local areas, making it much easier for people to obtain local information on other areas outside their own. This dissemination of regional information has led in turn to many cases of interchange between residents of regions with different characteristics. In this study, I look at one such interchange between local residents in different regions, the example of the town of Takashima in Shiga Prefecture, which is engaged in a regional promotion scheme through urban area and farm village exchange enterprises, and try and grasp its defining features.

On September 30 2003, Kochi District Court judged that the judgment Kochi city had made that building a cinema complex in AEON Kochi Shopping Center couldn't have been permitted was against the law. In consequence, it opened on July 17 2004 with the exceptional permission of Clause 11, Article 48 of the Building Standard Law.This paper arranges the data on this case, studies them from the viewpoint of "tolerance" and "necessity", and presents problems of the restriction of master plans, the common good of revitalization of city centers, and the criterion of consensus of citizen.

Urban Planning Basic Survey is established to be done almost every five years in Japan. But circumstances depend on municipalities. Duration between surveys should be changed in proportion to the amount of changes in urban areas. This paper proposes a practical method to evaluate changes in urban area to decide if Urban Planning Basic Survey will be done. The method must be easy and low-cost because it will be applied before the survey. Accordingly, the method make the most of existing data, that is, tax property data and Statistics on BuildingConstruction Starts. A case study is done for Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

This paper examines neighborhood profiles of towns/cities where Connecticut (CT) state teleworkers reside in an effort to take the first step to find telework's effect on peoples' preference to neighborhood profiles other than the distance from their workplaces. It was found that, in all eight aspects of neighborhood profile inspected, distribution differences between all municipalities in CT and those where CT sate government teleworkers live are statisticaly significant. Examples are that latter is more likely to populate 10 to 30 thousand, and tends to have higher percenage of Caucasian. Its residents with academic degrees higher than bachelor are likely to be 20 to 30% of the population. Its average housing price is apt to fall into the range between 125 to 175 dollars.

An NPO in Itabashi carried out a research making a map with points where children feel uneasy or have been caught in a trouble and to share it with residents in the area.They use an Internet Mapped Information Board System "Kakiko Map" as a tool to share information with which they can put information on an internet map as if they put memos on a sheet of paper map.This paper summarizes the gaining of this research and evaluates them with the viewpoint of learning of children, concern of their parents for safety, and advantages of partnership.

This study intended to clear the space-design theory of Elementary school zones in Kyoto city.The conclusions are : 1.There is a considerable danger that low-class children of elementary school faced many traffic accident in the road. 2.Support Program of local Community was not effective for elementary school children. 3.Appearance of children's social act on the way in school zones confirmed same Situation and atmosphere.