Abstract

Governments in the past have been putting in efforts to resolve the issue of imbalance between capital and non-capital regions, as well as cities and rural areas by pursuing diverse policies for diverse balanced developments, such as enacting 「Special Act On Balanced National Development」 and etc. However, centralization of metropolitan areas, and rural areas falling behind in comparison continued, which made it difficult to maintain the nation’s sustainable growth without achieving the policy objective of balanced regional developments.BR With this background, this study projected medium and long term visions and goals of balanced regional developments onto the formulation of city/do development plans, and furthermore sought practical improvement measures in regard to the participation of local governments that possess autonomous rights in districts under jurisdiction.BR First, systematic procedures of collecting feedbacks from city/do must be established in regard to the guidelines, deliberations and voting that are required when formulating city/do development plans. Second, city/do/gu should be given opportunities to systematically participate in the planning stages of the balanced development. Third, the effect of balanced development policy should be heightened by enacting ordinances that are related to the Special Act On Balanced National Development.BR In case of developing plans for certain regions, there might be consistency issues in regard to other adjacent and higher plans that are based on other legislations. Therefore, the planning supremacy of metropolitan and local governments that have jurisdictions over corresponding regions should ultimately be strengthened.

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