Japanese Journal of Human Geography
Online ISSN : 1883-4086
Print ISSN : 0018-7216
ISSN-L : 0018-7216
Volume 35, Issue 4
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  • From the Viewpoint of Vertical Growth
    Takashi TODOKORO
    1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 289-310
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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    Central shopping streets are classified into two types by their street forms: one is those in which shops face on to a certain trunk street (type A), the other, where shops face a pedestrian street (type B). The difference in street forms between type A and type B influences not only the structure but also the direction of growth of central commercial areas. In this paper, the author discusses the actual circumstances of the two types of central shopping streets by comparing data collected through field investigations carried out twice in 1971 and in 1981.
    The results are as follows:
    (1) Comparing the volume of the commercial function of central commercial areas among cities of the same size, there is no difference between type A and type B. The volume of the commercial function of big stores is large and their direction of location is a change-making factor in central shopping streets.
    (2) Vertical growth in central shopping streets is more evident in type A than in type B. This means that type A has more floor space than type B. Functions locating in type A are much more numerous and diverse than those in type B. This causes in type A an intensive rivalry for location in central shopping streets between retail and amusement functions and other functions (especially business functions). Thus vertical differentiation in functions is progressing more in type A than in type B. In addition, type A tends to form a compact central commercial area, where big stores play the leading role.
    (3) As type B restricts the access of cars, business functions locate less in type B than in type A. There is a tendency for retail and amusement functions to be located exclusively in type B. From this tendency, horizontal differentiation of business streets from central shopping streets tends to arise in the urban core of the cities that have type B, comparing cities of the same size.
    (4) The size of the buildings in type A is larger than that in type B. Functional complexity within one building is evident in type A.
    (5) With regard to stability as a central shopping street, type B is superior to type A. This is because in type A there is a rivalry for location between retail and amusement functions and other functions; in type B it is relatively less. External appearance as a central shopping street is more unified in type B than in type A.
    Whether it is in type A or in type B, the higher the centrality of the shopping street is, the higher the ratio of the fire-proof structures and the more vigorous the metabolism of establishments.
    Thus the internal structure of the urban core is undergoing reorganization through changes based on type A or type B, as explained above.
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  • Masato HAMATANI
    1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 311-327
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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  • Kenzo KAWAUCHI
    1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 328-344
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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    The object of this chapter is to examine the abandonment of irrigation reservoirs and the changes in land use in Matsubara City in Osaka, during the period of the rapid economic development in Japan.
    These irrigation reservoirs have been abandoned as a result of urbanization and in-dustrilialization. In Matsubara City, 59 irrigation reservoirs were reclaimed in the 24 years from 1958 to 1981, and the reclaimed land reached 68.141ha in area (including reservoirs reclaimed partly.) 54.1 percent of these 68.141ha has been used for public facilities, 17.0 percent for housing, and 9.2 percent for factories. Fields tend to be used much for housing or factory sites, and these reclaimed former reservoir sites are diverted more to public facility sites (Schools, Meeting halls, Playgrounds, Children's parks, etc.)
    Matsubara City needed to be supplied with public infrastructure, as urbanization had proceeded without planning, so the irrigation reservoirs were used as building sites. That the rate of use for public facilities was high was due to this unplanned urbanization. Meanwhile the rate of use for housing has been also increasing in recent years, because public infrastructure needs have been virtually met and the financial condition of this city has become worse. The abandonment of irrigation reservoirs should be considered from both these perspectives.
    In addition, the disuse of irrigation reservoirs has caused many problems: loss of pool function, financial problems in their disposal by sale, and re-organization of the utilization regulations. Especially the utilization regulations have become increasingly confused. This will be described in the next chapter.
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  • Hiroshi ODA
    1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 345-356
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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    It is well known that transhumance as a kind of large-scale pasturage is practiced in the Mediterranean region. Transhumance in modern Greece occupies its position in the framework of Mediterranean pasturage though it does not exist to the extent it does in Spain and other countries. This phenomenon is important in the study of animal husbandry.
    Formerly, A. Sorlin-Dorigny asserted that in ancient Greece transhumance was not practiced until the unification of Greece by the Romans. But recently some scholars maintain that transhumance was practiced in ancient Greece. An article by Stella Geogoudi is particularly valuable for its detail. The literary and epigraphical materials which she collected are restricted to those which we can recognize as being related to transhumance, but it is an exhaustive list. Following Georgoudi's thesis, I show the geographical conditions under which transhumance in ancient Greece was practiced and the actual details appearing in the literary and epigraphical materials.
    These historical materials do not throw much light upon land ownership. Even so we can expect that more new historical materials will be found and scholars will study transhumance and animal husbandry in contemporary Greece and contribute to our understanding of ancient Greek animal husbandry.
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  • Six Guns Along the Sanyo-do
    Masahiro YOSHIMOTO
    1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 357-370
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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  • 1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 371-377
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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    1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 377-379
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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  • [in Japanese]
    1983 Volume 35 Issue 4 Pages 379-380
    Published: August 28, 1983
    Released on J-STAGE: April 28, 2009
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