2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Planning Strategies of Urban Reconstruction under United States Administration in Post-War Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21720310
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Human geography
Research Institution	Ritsumeikan University
Principal Investigator	KATO Masahiro Ritsumeikan University, 文学部, 准教授 (30330484)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2010
Keywords	空間の生産 / 都市計画 / 米軍占領下 / 場所の文化政治 / 那覇 / コザ
Research Abstract	The purpose of this research is to clarify the process of urban reconstruction under U.S.military occupation in post-war Japan. In this research, the area chosen for intensive study is Naha (Okinawa Pref.) and focused on the formation process of urban space after the war. It is that as a result, there are two sides of a peculiar formation process to uniqueness of capital character in the city construction of Naha and the situation under the U.S.military rule that it was clarified.That is, because it was a capital, an urban formation according to a social tendency like the city planning of which the purport was the thoroughness in the space management and the population inflow, etc. spontaneous was complicated as mosaic according to the point, and the process of composing a present spectacle was able to be brought into relief.