This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between the geographic distribution of the elderly in Urayasu-shi and the accessibility of medical and commercial facilities for the elderly. First, under the assumption that population distribution is proportional to accessibility, we estimate how the accessibility changes as the distances to the facilities change. Second, it is shown that the accessibility for the elderly is more related to road distance than to direct distance, and decreases drastically as the road distances are larger. By extension, it implies that elderly people actually live closer to medical and commercial facilities than overall population do. Last, we conclude with future work.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the system for collecting building data on residential and commercial use through comparing the case of several foreign countries. It focuses on the building data from three points of view; (1) types of public organization, (2) purpose of collecting data and (3) contents and format of the data.The analysis of building data indicates that one of three types of public organization; (a) central governments, (b) states or prefectures or © basic local governments collects the data for the purpose of (x) revaluation of real property, (y) urban planning and (z) urban policies, based on the individual survey or the data from application forms.

In the Kiso region, the protection and restoration of portions of the historic post towns on the old Nakasendo and Kisoji highways has preserved the townscape of the Edo period down to the present. Moreover, this area corresponds to the upper reaches of the Kiso and Shinano rivers, one of the largest river systems in Japan. In these river basins, citizens' participation in river basin management and cooperation between upper, middle, and downstream regions has taken place across prefectural boundaries. From the viewpoint expressed above, this study takes up the Kiso region, which unites the historical characteristics of the post towns (cultural environment) with the river basin (water environment) conservation and management activities, in an effort to better understand these characteristics.

This report covers actual practices and management on the basis of Master Plans, by municipal governments in Saitama prefecture. Answers in our questionnaire survey show following two matters; 1) some government has tried to do many practices such as decision in development controls or re-preparation of other plans, in conformity to the prepared Master Plans, and 2) most respondents are at a loss for how to manage their Master Plans for themselves , in terms of plan-do-check-action cycle management system. This report suggests reasonable methods to manage the master plans in viewpoint of both achievement to visions and evaluation of measures concepts.

There is growing need for regional point of view in the theory and practice of city planning because of widening social and economic activities, promotional consolidation of municipalities and decentralization movement. Therefore it will be important to provide an educational system in undergraduate school concerning wide-scale planning matters and relationship among planning system in different hierarchy. With these backgrounds, they have provided a studio program of regional planning since 2003 for undergraduate students in department of urban engineering, the University of Tokyo. This note summarizes and reports this regional planning studio including overall curriculum in the department.

This is a quick report of a questionnaire to local authorities by Building Research Institute. It investigatesthe current situation concerning maps and information about buildings. The results show that 1) mostlocal authorities use maps made in 5 years, but not few authorities use maps older, 2) many localauthorities make information not only about buildings and land use, but also about other kinds of objects.

We investigated the Practice of Traffic Control Service in Seoul city. They are summarized as follows:1.Studying the history of urban transport of Seoul, we can understand that tramway was removal from road by a rapid expansion of car. 2.The continuation of bus-system administration is a large undertaking. Therefore, the authorities adopted a new policy which represents semi-public operational enterprise. 3.Seoul-model of traffic service has a good reputation not only in The Republic Korea but also in foreign countries. We can meet the new trend of the age.