Study of Land Use no Soil-and-sand Mining Reclamation Sites in the Osaka Bay Area

Abstract

Land use changes at soil-and-sand mining reclamation sites in the Osaka Bay Area was analyzed across time and geographical scales. Changes of urban land use or waste land were inferred from topographical maps. It was found that change depends chiefly on distance from densely inhabited district (DID)(a location characteristic) rather than socioeconomic background. Regulation systems about soil-and-sand mining site haven't yet been established. These results suggest that extensive planning in anticipation of the future use of the area is indispensable to large-scale development projects like soil-and-sand mining.