Recently, the necessity of the road business is doubted in our country. When we see current transportation from the resident's load and convenience, it might be felt that there are differences in the city and the local. On the other hand, the road maintenance and improvement are necessary for the local populace's life and the regional promotion, the support of industry.<br>This questionnaire survey shows how to think of the road maintenance in a present condition and the future by people who live in the city and the local, and clarifies the difference of the opinion about the road in the city and the local (Each city scale).<br>This study aimed to assume basic material to search for what should be and the method of the business of the road maintenance in the future.

It differs greatly from a past embankment, and the high-standard levee business done together with the city planning is taken up. The resident's mutual agreement might not be obtained easily because of the business to which it takes time to modify land on a large scale.It becomes an opportunity when the stagnating city planning business is encouraged by doing together with the city planning.Moreover, it is the essentially common in point to do a city planning and a the high-standard levee by the disaster prevention purpose one. Waiting strong as for the flood, the earthquake, and a fire is expected to be made from doing these two businesses at the same time. The case actually done from such a viewpoint is investigated, and the problem is arranged

People have been engaging in Satoyama conservation activities. However, civic groups which are working for Satoyama conservation have problems about participants. In this paper, I researched the type of participants and how they worked for Satoyama conservation. It was showed that the main participants were retired people who were mostly over 60. It is necessary for such civic groups to welcome younger people to continue their activities. To invite younger people who are engaging in their child care or work to their activity, I suggested the program in which various people, including parents and their children, can be interested and take part.

The aim of this study is to clarify the organization and the system causes private investment toward urban regeneration. We survey the intention and the function of Urban Development Corporations and Urban Regeneration Companies in England as antedating cases. Both of UDCs and URCs are the independent organization to promote urban regeneration. Their structures are mainly consisted of people from private sector. To promote private investment, UDCs have strong power and budget to improve the condition of area, URCs have no power but they act as coordinator between public and private sector for project funding. Existing systems in Japan are not enough to promote or leverage private investment. The new system like UDCs or URCs should be introduced to province.

In this research, the development city planning entrepreneur body that does the business with a high sociality is an object though the business is low in the local city downtown. It has aimed to lead the requirement for it to act becoming independent and continuing, and to lead the technique that can be applied. Conclusions are the following four elements. Business (application of technique for raising development cost to market value).the enterprise (system maintenance and clarification of the responsibility), the publicities (sharing the vision and specification of the effect),circulation in region (construction of circulation of regional economy) and regions. It proposes the center of a city regional business development company by the manager of the town as a technique that can be the application it based on this.

In this paper, I report on the significant factors affecting settlement consciousness from the view point of personal attributes and living environment. A web questionnaire was conducted for residents of 49 cities in Japan. The obtained results are shown as follows: Firstly, it was clarified that the settlement consciousness of respondents was high. Secondly, by using the quantification theory, I clarified the relations between the personal attributes/living environment and the settlement consciousness. It was showed that one of resident's ages had strongly influenced for the settlement consciousness. Then, it is clarified that the respondents of 20's and 30's age require "accessibility and convenience to urban facility", and the respondents of over 40's age require "spatial attraction of living quarter, e.g. standard of safety or quality of life".

This study aims to clarify the characteristic of bench users in the waterfront park. For this study, we investigated the actual conditions and evaluation of bench users in this park. And we showed the feature of stay time and behavior depending on the location of benchs (through observational investigation). As a result, we understood that people choose this park because they can see the sea. People eat and drink in the place where they can command a prospect of the sea. In addition, they do simple activities, such as smoking or using a cellular phone, behavior in the place where accessibility is high.

he purpose of this thesis is to clarify the operation and the utilization of Planning Agreement and District Planning of the shopping street. As a result, District Planning provides the rules mainly for building uses and their forms. Planning Agreement provides detailed and diversified regulations such as signboards, store open hours and operation policies of the shopping streets.

This study aims to clarify the actual condition of facade signboards in Motomachi, Isezakicho, and Bashamichi shopping streets in Yokohama city. As a results, in Motomachi shopping street, the design and the color ofsignboards are unified Besides, the gold and silver colors are used in many signboards. In Isezakicho, the color saturations of signboards are higher than other streets. In the case of Bashamichi shopping street, red and yellow colors are used in most of signboards. We propose that shopping streets make detailed rules of signboards which designate maximum scales and color combinations.

It is pointed out that a safety issue for pedestrians occurs in some pedestrian and bicycle roads at Kohoku New Town. The big problem is that despite a concern about the design of road, pedestrian and bicycle areas are not separated. So, this thesis investigates some area in Kohoku New Town and shows what roads environment is safe for pedestrians. To improve pedestrian and bicycle roads safety, it is necessary to consider the entrance of retail shops and the location of stairs, and structure to reduce the conflict between pedestrians and bicycles.

This is a quick report of a questionnaire to local authorities carried out by Building Research Institute in Octorber 2008. It investigates current conditions concerning information for urban planning. In this questionnaire, we got a lot of answers from municiparites and grasped the latest condition about information for urban planning.