International Comparative Research on the Issues and Policies about Metropolis in the Age of Decreasing Population.

在本研究中，与伦敦经济学院的Alan Mace博士建立了合作关系，并于2012年至2013年对英国和日本进行了合作研究。另一个小组进行了国内研究，以澄清哪些地区受到人口减少的影响最大。研究结果在2013年AESOP大会等国内外学术会议上发表。通过这些研究，我们首次发现，贫困等与城市萎缩相关的社会问题发生在特定的社区，而不是整个大都会。我们讨论了以社区为基础的商业方法来处理这些问题的有效性，而不是政府自上而下的方法。最后，我们要说的是，我们需要考虑引入新的规划模式，将这些以社区为基础的小挑战联系起来。

In this research, cooperative relationship has been developed with Dr. Alan Mace of London School of Economics, and collaborative research trips to UK and Japan were conducted from 2012 to 13. Domestic research was conducted by another team to clarify which areas had most been affected by decreasing population. The outcomes have been presented at domestic and international academic opportunities including AESOP Congress in 2013.Through these researches, we first found that social issues associated with shrinking such as poverty had occurred in particular communities, not in whole metropolis. We discussed effectiveness of community-based business approach to deal with those issues, rather than governmental top-down approach. In conclusion,we would say we need to consider introducing new planning paradigm to link these small community-based challenges.