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An Analysis on Urban Shrinkage Trends of All Japanese Cities Via Detecting Relative Densely Inhabited District

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: To grasp the actual situations of urban shrinkage dispassionately is considered important for the urban planning in an era of shrinking population in Japan. For analyzing method of the urban shrinkage and urban structure changing in an era of shrinking population, Densely Inhabited District (DID) has been applied in some past studies as an index of urban area. As an issue of this method, shrinkage or urban structure change in the cities where no DID exist or the whole area is DID can’t be analyzed.

Source: Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)

DOI: 10.3130/aija.85.997

Authors: Akihiro KAWABE, Shun WATANABE

Institutions: Urban Renaissance Agency, University of Tsukuba

Language: English

Topic: Urbanization and City Planning

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science