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| General Principles
of Universal Design Policy |
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| III. Specific measures |
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Planning communities
where everyone can live safely and comfortably |
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To create communities where people can
lead their daily lives on foot, incentives are established to encourage
the concentration of dwellings and facilities needed for daily life
in neighborhoods while comfortable pedestrian spaces are established
by comprehensively and systematically providing new related facilities.
Advanced cases are accumulated as models for implementation nationwide.
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(Related facilities)
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Funds are invested to support Special
Purpose Corporations (SPC) that are corporations established
especially to supply housing in a neighborhood and residence
in the neighborhood is encouraged to restore its population. |
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The concentration of public facilities
and utilities in downtown is encouraged by applying incentives
in city planning. |
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Support is provided to encourage
regional measures such as removing barriers from pedestrian
spaces in neighborhoods and establishing regional medical treatment
centers and public housing *15 with
nursing care through links with welfare bureaus etc. |
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In order to announce the principles and
measures for community planning based on the concept of universal
design in city planning, Planning Policy Guidance is formed. |
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Support is given for integrated and continuous
improvements of roads, parks, and private land etc. from the perspective
of community creation to provide safe and comfortable pedestrian spaces.
This is done by helping landowners, residents, corporations, and other
regional bodies improve, manage, and operate their regions. |
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Communities are created based on the concept
of universal design through the integrated and comprehensive removal
of barriers from transportation facilities and other buildings used
by many people by removing level differences and electric power poles
from sidewalks and by ensuring bicycle parking areas to create safe
and comfortable pedestrian space. |
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In addition to restoring urban districts
based on the concept of universal design by comprehensively and strategically
reconstructing public and public benefit facilities that had deteriorated
and declined in new towns and other existing planned redevelopment
urban housing districts, when public housing developments are reconstructed,
also constructing welfare facilities etc. to provide welfare bases. |
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Communities that are safe and worry-free
for elderly and handicapped people and children are promoted by encouraging
the seismic retrofitting of housing, establishing information provision
systems to support evacuation during disasters, preparing guidelines
to prevent people from accidentally falling down inside buildings,
and by designing environments considering the prevention of crime
in public facilities and in housing. |
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(Specific
examples)
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Funds are invested to support SPC established
by landowners to supply housing in city centers where the population
has declined in order to promote residence in urban neighborhoods
by the private sector. Applications of such methods as Special District
Plan for Redevelopment or revising land use zone are promoted to induce
the concentration of such facilities as medical and welfare facilities
in douwntown.
The creation of neighborhoods with housing and daily life
related facilities concentrated in a range accessible by walking is
promoted by constructing pedestrian decks (pedestrian space constructed
above automobile roads) linking stations with public and public benefit
facilities, transforming streets lined by shops into arcades, and
by offering neighborhood improvement subsidies to supply housing in
neighborhoods and providing comprehensive support to urban redevelopment
projects. |
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In residential districts such as Tama
New Town or Senri New Town that were developed between 30 and 40 years
ago, facilities have deteriorated and declined, the population has
aged, and the period of overall redevelopment is approaching. Therefore,
this situation is taken as the opportunity to redevelop multi-function
cities based on the concept of universal design as places where diverse
people can live, work, and relax. |
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Public housing with nursing
care: Housing designed for elderly households by combining barrier-free
public housing with daily life support services by daily life support
personnel (life support advisors) (Silver Housing Project). |
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