Most suburban areas face the social issues of aging and declining population, and decrease number of public and commercial facilities. However, the inflow of new generations and diversification in residents’ lifestyles is also happening simultaneously. Therefore, in order to effectively reorganize suburbia for the coming decades, it is significant to observe facility transition and its location trend in the era of population decline and aging societies. In this thesis, the Midorigaoka-machi (Midorigaoka) area and the Shizimicho-Aoyama (Aoyama) area were chosen as case studies. The facilities of these areas have been collected from residential maps and classified into 7 groups and 29 types. The transition and present situation are determined by the differences between the “Land Use Plan,” “District Plan,” and the characteristics of each zone in the area. Furthermore, spatial-autocorrelation and questionnaire surveys have been used to elucidate the location trend and residents’ utilization of facilities.
As a result of observing the facility transition in the overview of the entire region as well as in each district, three inferences were made: 1) the dine-out and purchasing facilities have decreased in number with the decline in population and aging of society; 2) the number of life-services, welfare-services, and educational facilities have increased; 3) Midorigaoka-Machi area, which was developed earlier, finds itself having decreased number of facilities in comparison to Shizimicho-Aoyama.
By analyzing the relationship between facility location trends and the characteristics of each district and zones, the following two inferences were made: 1) none of facilities gather at any particular Specific Zones or Land Use Plans; 2) the District Plan gives more effect to accumulation of facilities than the Land Use Plan.
Through the spatial auto-correlation analysis, three location trends were observed: 1) Both facilities with aggregation trends and facilities not showing such a trend existed; 2) There were two types of cases: where the facility toward aggregation was due to the decrease of its number and where the aggregated trend of the facility type existed through the construction of new facilities neighboring similar facilities.
From the results of the questionnaire survey, the following two points were found: 1) Residents use facilities that are used daily in their residential area; 2) Most residents move to urban areas or near huge shopping malls to use recreational facilities and facilities which are otherwise hard to use on a daily basis.
In combination, the nine statements above made the following points clear:
i) the mechanism of facility fluctuation:
a) the trend of fluctuation depends on the facility group;
b) the facility mostly increases at/beside the main artery;
c) the demographic difference between two detached residential areas results in distinction in facility types
ii) the mechanism of the facility aggregation:
a) two patterns of aggregation were stated;
b) a District Plan has more possibility of controlling facility aggregation than a Land Use Plan;
c) aggregation by decreasing number of facilities happens at the inner parts of the residential area;
d) aggregation by increasing number of facilities happens at the edge of the residential area.
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