LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF CANDIDATES FOR CORE AREAS ―TOWARD THE COMPLEMENTATION OF URBAN FUNCTIONS ACROSS A WIDE AREA―

Abstract

 Although sharing functions by setting up wide-area centers that transcend municipal boundaries in response to increasingly severe decline in population is eagerly sought, criteria for selecting centers and their comprehensive reality remain unclear. Cross-sectional and chronological perspectives are lacking. Therefore, this study was conducted to obtain suggestions for future widearea functional complementation by comprehensively examining changes in Candidate for Core Areas (CCA) that have existing stocks and which can serve as places for people's activities. The analysis results indicate the following: 1) The actual hierarchy of CCA with no railway stations is higher than that of CCA with railway stations in mountainous areas. 2) Decentralization is occurring in suburban areas where these are maintained or increasing. 3) Accessing CCA for daily life functions is difficult to achieve without passenger car use. Results show that areas exist in which it is still difficult to access potential sites with daily life and service functions without reliance on a car.