In Indonesia, like in several Southeast Asian countries, decentralization has been promoted by the 1999 decentralization laws (Law No.22/1999, Law No.25/1999). In 2004, these laws were revised into new ones (Law No.32/2004, Law No.33/2004). Also, in response to this trend of decentralization, a new law on the national development planning system (Law No.25/2004) was enacted in 2004. This paper reports on those changes in Indonesia's decentralization and development planning system. In this paper, first, the historical background of decentralization in Indonesia, decentralization by the 1999 laws and the revised points of the 2004 laws are explained. Then, the new development planning system by Law No.25/2004 is outlined.

The land use planning system of Germany is briefly described here, based on the example of Meiningen, a small town in Thueringen. Though the detailed and precise system of land use planning in Germany is often referred in Japan as one of ideal forms of urban planning system, there are few documents which plainly show the whole structure and distribution of jurisdiction about the planning system. This paper aims at showing the structure of land use planning system in Germany with several figures and photos quoted from original planning maps and documents, in order to make readers grasp the general framework.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake caused a lot of damage to the city between Hanshin in January 17 of 1995. The railway damage due to this earthquake was serious, and not only the railway track but also damage concerning the station was extensive. It can be said that the necessity for make the station the basic point of the revival community design with rebuilding station, work on a creative revival jointly by three people (the entrepreneur, the administration, and the resident), and aim at new relation making between station and community design is high. This study was aimed to clarify the earthquake revival process from the aspect of relation between rebuilding station and reviving community design.

This Study aims at clarifying the tasks to be dealt with for the purpose of facilitating carefully planned town development at the block level to suit the specific development issues and intentions of the residents while investigating the types of people and their lifestyles in the Nogata area of Nakano Ward where is selected as the target area. In the object district,it is a subject in future community design to resolve the following downward spiral,ageing of residents with decreasing number of children,further subdivision of land and deterioration ofbuildings,worsening residential environment and incasing risk of disasters, lowering of vitality and attractiveness of the community.

This study intended to clear the space-design theory of roads in Residential Areas in Kyoto city.The conclusions are:1.The District roads need to Redesign that makes for good human relations.2.Many roads in Old-town of Kyoto city,have a character of Outdoors.3.Community service of roads take wings Likely Information for the safety of the traffic.

This paper is a flash report of the questionnaire about the enforcement situation of the damage forecast survey about natural disasters which surveyed by municipalities. This questionnaire wad conducted by Building Research Institute to municipalities all over the country in February, 2005. This survey content is three points as follows;(1) Enforcement situations, such as damage forecast survey about natural disasters, (2) The practical use and the open situation of results of an survey,(3) The practical use situation in the geographic information system (GIS) of results of an survey.

When a huge earthquake strikes cities, a quick response must be done. Evaluation of damages comes first. But in this time, it is difficult to examine damages of buildings in short time. This paper deals with a practical method to collect damage information of buildings after a large-scale disaster. The discussions are done based on the experience of Postearthquake Quick Inspection of Damaged Buildings at 2004 Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake.