2022 Volume 77 Issue 5 Pages I_407-I_416
Many of the housing complexes developed around the 1970s in Japan are now experiencing aging and declining populations, and the quality of life is declining due to the withdrawal of retails and public services. These problems interact with are spiraled down each other and. In this study, the household-based microsimulation model that endogenizes the location of commercial facilities is developed and applied to a residential complex in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture for evaluating options of policy measures to resolve problem of the negative spiral and revitalize the residential area. As a result, it is shown that the measure to guide location of commercial facilities alone will not sustainable , but instead a combination of measures with transport and residential measures will increase sustainability.
