no72-76

[75] The Continuity of National Land Plan and Regional Plan between World War II and the Postwar Period in Japan

A case study on the Comprehensive National Development Plan in 1962 and the 1^st Metropolitan Development Plan in 1958

○Hiroyoshi Sano¹ (1. Toyo University)

Keywords:Comprehensive National Development Plan, Metropolitan Development Plan, A theory of livelihood sphere

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the continuity of national land plan and regional plan between the World War II and 1960s in Japan, focusing on the 1st comprehensive national development plan in 1962 and the 1st metropolitan development plan, by collecting formal and informal documents and analysis of discourse of some bureaucrats and technocrats who engaged in development of the plan. As a result, the continuity of contents related to industrial location and urban layout was clarified. A theory of life-area or seikatsuken, proposed by Hideaki Ishikawa, had a great influence on both the prewar national land plan and the regional plan, but it was denied in the postwar national land plan and inherited to some extent in the regional plan.