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Volume 46 (2011)
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Volume 46, Issue 2
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Takayuki Suzuki, Toru Ishikawa, Yukio Sadahiro, Yasushi Asami2011Volume 46Issue 2 Pages 117-123
Published: October 25, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: December 27, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis research examined local residents' feelings of attachment to urban facilities and to the city, through an on-site questionnaire survey. Three groups of residents were identified in terms of their levels of attachment to the city: one group had a relatively low attachment, and the other two groups had a higher attachment but differed in the degrees of sense of belonging and desire for permanence. Detailed analyses of the characteristics of these three groups showed that the feeling of attachment to the city was related to the feeling of attachment to urban facilities and the attributes of residents. These results suggest the possibility of enhancing residents' place attachment through the practice of urban planning, for example, providing ideas for the construction and maintenance of urban facilities.View full abstractDownload PDF (656K) -
Arito Hikida, Toru Ishikawa2011Volume 46Issue 2 Pages 125-131
Published: October 25, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: December 27, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study examined elderly people's ability to interrelate maps and real spaces, through spatial tasks of matching locations and directions indicated on maps and scenes shown as photographs. Performance of 88 elderly and 26 young people was analyzed with structural equation modeling. The ability to correspond maps and real spaces was affected by age directly more than was indirectly affected through self-assessment of aging. It indicates the necessity for urban planning to consider effective ways to provide navigational information, by recognizing the psychological difficulty that elderly people have with spatial orientation. Experience in map-use and extant geographical knowledge affected the ability, suggesting possible effects of designing city environments that allow elderly people to walk around and gain experience and knowledge.View full abstractDownload PDF (1024K) -
Michitaka Umemoto2011Volume 46Issue 2 Pages 132-142
Published: October 25, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: December 27, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn order to obtain basic knowledge to develop a method of demand forecasting by means of transportation for long distance evacuation which may extend to the next prefecture, we conducted two questionnaire surveys- one of which was on the Civilian Protection division of the 47 prefectures of Japan, and the other was targeting the citizens in the four prefectures of Fukushima, Niigata, Fukui and Shizuoka. Based on the obtained data, we grasped the present situation of preparing for the evacuation as a measure of Civilian Protection in the prefectures, and analyzed the influence factors in citizens' choices of means of transportation for the evacuation. Then, we corrected the ratio of the choices by using existing statistical data such as the national census data.View full abstractDownload PDF (842K) -
A spatial microsimulation approachKazumasa Hanaoka2011Volume 46Issue 2 Pages 143-149
Published: October 25, 2011
Released on J-STAGE: December 27, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis article aims at estimating the spatial distributions of earnings at the small area level in Kyoto City, Japan by using a spatial microsimulation. A spatial microsimulation is a method to create a synthetic micro dataset at the small area level by combining different datasets. In this article, we created a synthetic micro dataset from the Person-Trip Survey in the manner that it agreed with census tables. Earnings of individuals were then estimated based on their attributes and added to it. Finally, the synthetic micro dataset was re-tabulated to map earning indices for understanding various aspects of geographical inequalities.View full abstractDownload PDF (1464K)
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