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Land Use Planning for Depopulating and Aging Society in Japan

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This chapter, based on author’s experience as a professor planner who works closely with local governments and consultants in Japan to draft master plans or planning guidelines, introduces several cases of land use planning for depopulating and aging society with various sudden and progressive risks. The cases include urban master plans for Yokosuka City, Shizuoka City and Suzuka City as well as Mie prefecture’s planning guidelines for disaster mitigation. The author emphasizes that there is no universal approach to land use planning for depopulating and aging society. “Networked-Compact City” might be a broad concept to follow, but actual urban master planning practices show diversity of issues and approaches.

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  1. Urban Land Use Planning Unit, Department of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Akito Murayama

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  1. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yoshiki Yamagata

  2. Preferred Networks, Inc.,, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroshi Maruyama

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Murayama, A. (2016). Land Use Planning for Depopulating and Aging Society in Japan. In: Yamagata, Y., Maruyama, H. (eds) Urban Resilience. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39812-9_5

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