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| General Principles
of Universal Design Policy |
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| II.Basic concept of
the general principles of universal design policy |
4. Creating communities where everyone can live safely
and comfortably
A community is the foundation of
people's daily lives, and community planning must consider creating communities
where people of all kinds can live comfortably.
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Promoting efforts to create pedestrian
communities |
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Measures must be taken to
create "pedestrian communities": that are compact communities
on a pedestrian scale where all facilities necessary for the residents'
daily lives are nearby, freeing them from excessive dependence on
automobiles, encouraging them to extend their daily lives to surrounding
streets, and allowing them to obtain all the goods and services they
need to meet their daily basic needs within walking distance. |
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Encouraging measures incorporating entire
communities |
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It is necessary to smooth
all the various activities people conduct in their communities, and
this must be done considering not only specified facilities, but a
wide variety of facility uses and smooth travel to and from these
facilities. It is important for regional governments that conduct
community improvement projects to respond to the views of a wide range
of concerned groups by incorporating the perspective of entire communities
and presenting basic guidelines for community improvements based on
the concept of universal design, and to provide planned, staged, safe,
and comfortable pedestrian space according to the need for and the
importance of their improvement. |
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Creation of daily life functions including
residential, welfare, and shopping district functions through the
renewal and redevelopment of communities. |
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Taking the opportunities provided
by the renewal of urban districts and new towns etc. developed during
the period of high speed economic growth, welfare bureaus and other
concerned bureaus must cooperatively support the provision of a variety
of residential districts and the improvement of neighborhoods etc.
at the now inadequate number of facilities needed by elderly people,
handicapped people, and families with children, to create residential,
welfare, shopping district, and other daily life functions in each
region. |
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Safe and worry-free community improvement |
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Disaster protection measures
and day-to-day accident prevention measures for buildings that consider
the elderly, handicapped people, and children etc. must be undertaken
so that all people can live safely and free from worry. |
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