After the first designation as a planned city by the City Planning Act, Gifu City had quickly expanded its limits during the early Showa era. In the first stage of Gifu City Planning Project, it was aimed to be grown as the city of manufacturing industry. According this vision the main street network was planned. The suburban parts of this street network were, however, decided to construct as the Land Readjustment Projects to save the public construction costs. After all, the landowners of the Land Readjustment Project's sites seemed not to follow the initial vision of the City Planning, but to intend to develop their lands for ideal residential areas. As the result, Gifu City experienced the major change of its planning vision from the modern industrial city to the modern city of residence and tourism at this moment. It corresponds to the fect that mayor, Kunimatsu Matsuo, with rising bureaucrats set the policy of creating such type of city as a reasonable means for arbitrating conflict with emerging middle class and traditional landowners.%わが国では、1919(大正8)年に旧都市計画法が制定された後に、地方都市においても都市計画事業が実施されるようになった。初期の都市計画制度に関する研究は、多数の蓄積があり、概ねその経緯は次のように把握されている。第一次大戦後に近代都市では、急速に工業化あるいは都市化し、各種の大都市問題が顕著になる。しかし既に東京市区改正で行われてきたような都心改造のみではコントロールができなくなってきており、より総合的な手法による計画が求められた。
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