Abstract
In the marginal regions of metropolitan areas, there is a tendency for the location of offices and residences to increase in accordance with the development of transportation network in recent years. Therefore, urbanization advanced quickly and it has a possibility of making the competition of urban land use and other land uses such as farmland and forest aggravate further. Furthermore, this is connected with the problems such as the deviation between land use control and land use. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the land use control of land use master plan by analyzing the deviation with the land use in Lake Biwa's drainage basin as one of marginal regions of a metropolitan area. In this study, GIS as spatial analysis tools should be effective. The major findings of this study are as follows; 1) Inside the city areas, land use problems accompanying urbanization have arisen in the urbanization control areas of southeastern part and in the white areas of northern drainage basin and it is crucial in the duplication areas with agricultural districts. 2) Although most of the outside of the city areas are covered with forests and there are not so serious problems, new urban areas have expanded slightly in the agricultural districts of both eastern and northern parts.
