A STUDY ON A CONSENSUS BUILDING SUPPORT METHOD FOR PLANNING IN URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

In recent years, urban areas in Japan have been faced with increasingly worsening problems of decrease in population and socio-economic activity in the inner city areas. One powerful method to alleviate the problem is to quicken the pace of urban redevelopment projects aimed at increasing the attractiveness of these areas. The objective of this study is to develop and examine the applicability of a planning support system for accelerating consensus building among the property owners in urban redevelopment projects in Japan. Problems with current redevelopment project processes are clarified and a new methodology is proposed employing a support system that can simulate important decision making factors such as overall project costs and rights conversion under various proposed plans while offering the property owners easy to understand visual output through Virtual Reality models, graphs and reports.