Distribution Characteristics of Population Growth / Decline Area in Three Major Metropolitan Areas Focusing on Population Dynamics

Abstract

To clarify population dynamics and distribution characteristics of population increase and decrease areas in three major metropolitan areas, it was analyzed using the area mesh data of the population census. The reurbanization was seen in Kanto Metropolitan area that population growth rate was high in. But Chukyo and the Kinki Metropolitan area had few tendencies of the reurbanization. The population growth mesh has high agglomeration rate in a center without depending on population dynamics in the whole metropolitan area, and it forms big agglomeration area. On the other hand, the population decline mesh has low agglomeration rate, and it is hard to be formed in the big agglomeration area. In addition, in the metropolitan area of population decline era, population growth mesh and decrease mesh were distributed over the mosaic.