The evolution of "the Garden City concept" in the Bureau of Home Affairs in Ministry of Interior in the closing years of Meiji era

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  • 明治末期の内務省地方局における「田園都市論」の展開
  • メイジ マッキ ノ ナイムショウ チホウキョク ニ オケル デンエン トシロン

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"The Garden City concept", which later influenced the formation of suburbian residences, had been accepted mainly by the Bureau of Home Affairs in Ministry of Interior in the beginning. This thesis was not understood clearly under the Social Reform Movement directed by the Bureau of Home Affairs. However, this thesis was invested with affirmative significances influenced by the Social Welfare Movement. In this movement, matters related to housing, which were treated as measures for relief from poor or prevention of poor, had changed. They changed into functional living spaces for re-production of labor which should constitute social space under capitalism. This living space had been lead to function as a place for modern society to realize another problem, to integrate people into the nation. "The Garden City concept" evolved into the spatial thesis which should support and develop functionally divided and integrated social relations.

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