Abstract
In most local cities, the urban areas have been expanding, while the central urban areas have increasingly declined because of depending on cars. In this paper, we grasped the transition of area division system and the tendency of urban development from the introduction of area division system on the urban planning area of Nagano City. We also performed modeling the tendency of urban development by the land use zone and the term of area division in each rural community through introducing the idea of urban development pressure using the covariance structure analysis. As a result, it was found that the urban development pressure was influenced considerably by the main roads and the land use zone, especially the urban development pressure had a tendency to increase in rural community which was a long way from the train station and the central urban area, and near the main roads.
