著者

松井 宏方

出版者

鹿児島国際大学

雑誌

地域経済政策研究 (ISSN:13458795)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.241-256, 2004-03-31

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Recognizing the relationship of the Latin roots civitas and urbs for the English word city, this paper observes the successive development of the city since the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution in Britain, the intense concentration of people in rapidly growing industrial cities created an inferior habitat. Although many altternative models for cities based on socialist utopian ideas have been proposed, Marxists refused to accept the concrete city image. It is pointless to propose city reform without social reconstruction through socialism. Modern city planning in solidality with politics has therefore not taken place in favor of technical methods aimed at ameliorating the habitat. In the process of modernizing Japan by accepting Western ideas in all fields, city planning techniques have not had the opportunity to draw upon a more integrated planning approach. It is important to realize the current Town Planning and Zoning Act does not include the depiction of an integrated idea for the city.