A STUDY OF THE RURBAN COMMUNITY AREA OF NAGANO CITY

Abstract

I have begun a study of the rurban. community area of Nagano City in order to offer some scientific materials not only for geograpt ical purpose, but for the reorganization of villages, towns and cities and for the establishment of educational. districts under the management of the local board of education the problems of which are now being noticed. as important all through Japan. To settle the area I investigated about 120 towns and villages around Nagano City on the following five items. Those are; i, Time to reach Nagano City ii, Number of attendants to Nagano City (Fig.l) iii, Times of shopping in Nagano City (Fig.2) iv, Sung of vegetable packages carried to Nagano City. v, Number of patients who attend to the N agano Red Cross Hospital (Fig. 3)
Next I observed the intensity of connection of each town or village with Nagano City by the total sum of 5 items. The method Was thus : I divided eanh item into 5 grades according to 5 items, (Tab.l) I recognized the to-tal sum as its degree of connection to Nagano City. When the evaluation points of each town or village were expressed on the distribution. map (Fig.4). I foundd that the degree of connection increa, es as a place approaches to Nagano City and decreases as it goes farther from the city. Then I drew isopleth of 20, 15 and. 10 points, and from inner ones I called them by the names of lst area, 2nd, 3rd and outer to show the areas clearly (Fig.3).
As a next step, I have a scheme of observing individually the characteris-tics of the strLTcture of. population, industry and community seen from its relation with Nagano City.