Research on the regional gap of city planning area and administration consciousness after consolidation of municipalities

_-_A case study on 160 cities with population above 50,000_-_

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is clarifying the relation between the regional gap of city planning area and administration consciousness after consolidation of municipalities.The focus of research is quantifying the administration consciousness to the regulation according to the coexistence situation of city planning area.The cities which analyzed are 160 cities with population above 50,000 which already carried out the consolidation of municipalities.In analysis of administration consciousness, factor analysis and analytic hierarchy process(AHP) were performed using the result of administration consciousness survey. The analysis results showed that there were gaps in the administration consciousness resulting from the coexistence situation of city planning area. This paper releases these analysis results and makes them an aid of reorganization of city planning area.