Introduction to Village Planning

Introduction to Village Planning 
Yukihiko Saito

186 mm x 130 mm
176 pages
JPY 1,800
ISBN 9784790717652
Pub date: February 2022

What skills are needed by experts in the various sites of “village planning,” regeneration of rural society? The researcher, who faces the issue humbly, without greed, loosely, happily but seriously, shows the procedures for community regeneration, introducing practical examples from the Japanese towns.

Points of Appeal
1) Practical advice for community revitalization
2) Description that respond to the voice of the people in the field
3) Lots of hints on the process of recovery from disasters

Table of Contents
Introduction

Basics 1. What is village planning? 
Basics 2. How to start: The process of “village planning”
Supplementary chapter 1. Where we want to go with planning village: Imagine the future

Example 1. Sadamoto District, Kimitsu City, Chiba Prefecture
Supplementary chapter 2. Student participation in village planning 
Example 2. Hosoura district, Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture
Supplementary chapter 3. Immigration, related population and village planning 

Conclusion / Afterword / Reference materials

Reviews
“This book is an introduction to ‘village development,’ focusing on the relationship between residents, who are the main actors in village development, and supporters who are involved in village development from the outside, based on the awareness of the problem of ‘the gap’between the needs of the government, which is in charge of regional policy, and those of the residents, who are the beneficiaries of that policy. ... By reading this book, you can learn how to deal with residents. This book should be read by those who are interested in village development.” ―Mitsuaki Ihara, city planning consultant

“This book is an excellent text for beginners to approach the essence of village planning and for experienced planners to reacquaint themselves with it, and at the same time, it can play an important role as a model for the next generation of experts to express the next style, or as a marker for a new era.”―Mitsuru Noda, rural planner