Centre-ville ; Géographie de l'Asie ; Hokuriku ; Honshu ; Japon ; Kanazawacity ; Métropole régionale ; Personnes âgées ; Population ; Répartition de la population
By using cohort analysis, it can be found that the main cause of ageing in the central area of the city was outmigration of the non-elderly, whereas in the urban periphery an absolute increase in the ageing population was as responsible
(transformations euclidienne, affine et projetée). Nouvel examen d'une étude de cartes mentales appliquée à KanazawaCity. Test sur les distortions systématiques.
ST On the Fukaku of the city : an attempt to evaluate cities by the place image
In this paper the term image of the city is used as a kind of the place image , which is an original and broad geographical image concept. This paper takes up the fukaku of the city as an example of the city by the place image. The objectives
are, firstly, to evaluate cities practically| secondly, to explain the concept of the fukaku of the city which the respondents have obtained from images of the city. - (KA)
Characteristics and trends of spatial forms of city centers in Japan
Employment ; Inner city ; Japan ; Urban morphology
This paper aims to analyze the spatial form in the city centers in Japan. It proposes the agglomeration district of city center-type (AD) as an absolute reference for the city center based on employee density. - (KA)
Classification ; Cluster analysis ; Globalization ; Network ; Principal components analysis ; Taxonomy ; Urban geography ; World city
The paper develops an exploratory research design using principal components analyses. Multiple solutions are used to explore the structure of a matrix defined by 123 cities and 100 global service firms. Using 13 separate analyses, the main finding
is a prime structure consisting in Outer cities, US cities, Pacific Asian cities, Euro-German cities and Old Commonwealth cities. The end-result is a new geography of globalisation as indicated by configurations of the world city network.
The city unbound : qualitative approaches to the city
City;Town ; Cultural geography ; Feminism ; Perception ; Social sciences ; Social theory ; Urban practice
The various developments which have led to a revitalisation and diversification of qualitative approaches to the city and to a transcending of traditional confines of qualitative work are considered. Studies drawing on semiotic and discursive
methods are reviewed. A range of qualitative work emerging from feminist analyses of the city is examined.
The purpose of this paper is to research the locational changes of branch offices in Kagoshima City, and to re-examine the place of Kagoshima City in the Kyushu regional urban system which has formed under the top-city of Fukuoka, through
the examination of the territories of branch offices in Kagoshima City. The author indicates 4 points as results. - (KA)
City as ideology : reconciling the explosion of the city form with the tenacity of the city concept
The A. analyses the city as ideology through reconciling the explosion of the city form with the tenacity of the city concept. To do so, he examines the three tropes of the traditional city which in material terms have been superseded in recent
decades in the Global North but retain their force as ideological representations of contemporary urban spatial practice : the opposition between city and country, the city as a self-contained system, and the city as an ideal type.
From a discussion of the close relationship between a city and its functional region, illustrated with Chinese cities of different hierarchies, the author proceeds to examine the rationale for promoting the development of cities in step
with development in the resource potentials of the city region, with territorial division of labour, and with demographic development within the region. Multi-centred cities have more rational structure than uni-centred cities provided that basic infrastructural
provision is in line with the rate of city growth. (TNC).
Choice of restaurants by the suburban inhabitants of Osaka City: the case of Fujiidera City
This article is a case study to examine how suburban inhabitants choose restaurants in the CBD and the suburbs. The A. selects Fujiidera City in Osaka metropolitan area.
111 residents of an inner-city suburb of Sydney were asked to list the advantages and disadvantages of the area and whether they intended to stay or move. Current theories on inner-city areas maintain that the working-class residents have a strong
affectual attachment to the inner-city and its way of life. The results of the survey suggest that these theories do not correspond with the attitudes of the inner-city working-class resident.