CITY RANKING AND EVALUATION USING COMPACT CITY INDEXES
- Comparison analysis of 39 densely inhabited districts -
2011 Volume 76 Issue 661 Pages 601-607
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2011 Volume 76 Issue 661 Pages 601-607
Recently, with the advance of motorization, decline of the city center has come to be considered as a serious problem especially in local cities. To solve such a problem, a concept called “Compact City” is proposed. However, there are no concrete image and criteria of it. This study devises the evaluation indexes from the books and papers about Compact City, and evaluates some DIDs by applying the indexes. As the samples, 37 DIDs in Kyusyu are selected. In addition, DIDs of Aomori city and Toyama city are examined because there are Compact City policies practiced by each city government. The indexes are created to have high versatility by using the statistics data from open resources and GIS data. The relative evaluation and ranking evaluation are utilized. Hita, Amagi, and Shimabara ranked in the top 3 DIDs. Also, Yatsushiro, Omuta, and Nobeoka ranked in the worst 3 DIDs. Each DID's characteristics and assignments are clarified since the DIDs ranked in higher positions are not always evaluated as good enough to be Compact City in every indexes, and the relationship between the indexes and the ranking evaluation is not significant.
