Construction of <i>Shinkansen</i> and Urbanization of Sakudaira as a Modern City:

Abstract

In postwar Japan, many cityscapes have changed significantly with the development of high-speed transportation networks. Focusing on the process by which the normative way the city's future and its realization is imaginedthat is, how the paradigm of city planning is accepted by the entities involvedthe dynamics of how urban spaces resulting from this social processare reflected in space is investigated. The target area of this study, around JR Sakudaira Station, started campaigning for a bullet train in the 1970s. However, a centralist paradigm took hold due to developmental politics in the economic sector and the model of a modern city in the technological sector, and planning was relegated to the central government leadership. On the other hand, changes in the industrial structure and an aging farming population strengthened the development paradigm to promote a shift toward urban land use. The agricultural cooperative representing the interests of farmers in land use promoted land readjustment projects around Sakudaira Station. This project initially progressed through a government-led, designcentric approach. However, due to a lack of concrete planning ideas to counteract market principles, there was a push to change to a liberal paradigm that emphasizes the free market. Thus, the region's leading commercial cluster was formed with the focus on large-scale stores, contrary to the original plan.

Overview: Current States of Non-metropolitan Cities in Japan

“…As a result, she points out that the effects of population centralization will be enhanced by focusing it on aged people, and the high frequency of bus traffic will contribute significantly to improving the accessibility of aged people. Musha (2016) shows that city planning around Sakudaira Station of the Hokuriku Shinkansen since 1997 under a centralist paradigm and with development carried out based on market principles, Saku city controls neither planning nor development. Hatakeyama (2016) studies comprehensive community care systems in Naruto city, Toku-shima.…”