Chapters authored
Changes of Essential Facilities in Housing Estates in an Aging Society: The Failure of City Planning in Japan
Shrinking suburbs cause to occur several problems in Japan. One of the serious problems is the safety of communities, which are kept by community’s members. Some suspicious persons will invade vacancy houses, because nobody can maintain them. And it is difficult to keep house, because of aging of residents. And many public facilities and shopping centers were closed by the depopulation. This chapter introduces two case studies. One is the case of suburb of Hiroshima and another is Ryugasaki new town which is located in suburb of Tokyo. Amidst the aging in the suburb of Hiroshima, facilities for the elderly have been increasing in suburban housing estates in recent years. Facilities planned for child-rearing households and facilities developed for those households are no longer consistent with aging population attributes, and improvement of living convenience facilities and welfare facilities for the elderly is required. Therefore, this study focuses on the location of nursing care insurance service projects such as nursing home care and home care facilities, among welfare facilities for aged people in suburban housing estates, and examines the location of nursing care welfare facilities in the suburban housing estates of Hiroshima City. And we will point out the failure of Japanese town planning.
Part of the book: Urban Agglomeration - Extracting Lessons for Sustainable Development [Working title]