Abstract
Although it is important to grasp the characteristics of macroscopic land-use changes, only few attempts have so far been made in regional planning. The purpose of this paper is to develop a land-use model over Japan. We employ Geographically Weighted Regression using Greater Municipal Regions (GMR) as data units. GMR is a cluster of municipalities consisting of central cities and surrounding rural villages and is considered to have a suitable spatial scale for regional planning. The results show that factors prescribing agricultural lands exhibit a high degree of variability over space and make clear the spatial characteristics of GMRs.
