Urbanization Process of Niigata City after World War II (No. 1)

The Mechanism of the Growth of Residential Area

Abstract

In this paper the author made some theoretical approach to development and extension through analysis of the process of urbanization of Niigata City after the World War II. She has explained such facts through the comparison of real land price and nominal one.
1. In civic center, high land value prevents the construction of new houses of middle class citizens, while high class apartments have begun to break into this area.
2. Before Niigata Earthquake in 1964, the site of the public housing estates took the lead in the advance of urban front. The construction of the public houses worked to promote the fullness of the traffic service and municipal facilities, which made a motivation to the construction of private houses.
But owing to the rapid rise of land price, people in need of land had much difficulty to get it. There is a keen increse of the ratio of the tenants in civic center, and lowering of standard of newly built houses in the suburbs.