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Development of methods for delineating urban areas based on urban density and its application to evaluating urban shrinkage

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K12978
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Social systems engineering/Safety system
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Hiroyuki Usui  東京大学, 大学院工学系研究科(工学部), 助教 (70748219)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords既成市街地 / 密度 / 人口集中地区 / 居住誘導区域 / 都市のスポンジ化 / 平均費用最小化 / 市街地画定 / 都市の縮退 / scaling / 街区 / 敷地 / 間口 / 確率密度関数
Outline of Final Research Achievements

A bottom-up method for delineating urban areas is developed which is based on building locations. This method consist of the following three steps. First, buildings whose nearest neighbor distance (NND) is shorter than a criterion are specified as built clusters. Second, built cluster's size greater than a criterion are delineated as urban areas. Third, the criterion regarding the NND of buildings is optimized which can minimize the average total cost of road networks. Urban areas delineated by this method are compared with densely inhabited districts (DID). Also, using this method, a new method is developed for evaluating whether or not vacant plots are randomly generated and accumulated spatiotemporally. It is found that the random generation of vacant plots does not tend to continue in the same urban areas. Rather, in most urban areas, this process is a temporary phenomenon. Nevertheless, once vacant plots are randomly accumulated in an urban area, this process tends to continue.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究が提案する既成市街地の画定方法は,既成市街地を構成する最小な空間単位である建物を基礎とし,既成市街地の形態と都市運営費用の関係を明示的に分析できた点において,学術的な意義を有する.また,社会的な意義として,建物の分布に基づいて既成市街地を画定する方法を構築し,既存の既成市街地である人口集中地区(DID)との比較分析を精緻に行うことで,居住誘導区域等の設定や既成市街地の縮退の評価への貢献が挙げられる.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (57 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (4 results) Journal Article (33 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Peer Reviewed: 21 results,  Open Access: 10 results) Presentation (19 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] コートダジュール大学(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] コートダジュール大学(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Nice Sophia Antipolis(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Nice Sophia Antipolis(France)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Variation in building heights under zoning regulations of building coverage ratio and floor area ratio: theoretical and empirical investigation of downtown districts in Tokyo2021

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      ISUF 2020 Virtual Conference Proceedings

      Volume: 1

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Building height distribution under zoning regulations: Theoretical derivation based on allometric scaling analysis and application to harmonise building heights2020

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

      Volume: onlinefirst Issue: 9 Pages: 2520-2535

    • DOI

      10.1177/2399808320977867

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Are patterns of vacant lots random? Evidence from empirical spatiotemporal analysis in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo2020

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki・Perez Joan
    • Journal Title

      Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

      Volume: onlinefirst Issue: 3 Pages: 777-793

    • DOI

      10.1177/2399808320956656

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Optimisation of building and road network densities in terms of variation in plot sizes and shapes2020

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

      Volume: onlinefirst Issue: 5 Pages: 1263-1278

    • DOI

      10.1177/2399808320924671

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A Comparison of neighbourhood relations based on ordinary Delaunay diagrams and area Delaunay diagrams: an application to define the neighbourhood relations of buildings2020

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki・Teraki Akihiro・Okunuki Keiichi・Satoh Toshiaki
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Geographical Information Science

      Volume: 34(11) Issue: 11 Pages: 2177-2203

    • DOI

      10.1080/13658816.2020.1748191

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report 2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Classification of residential buildings into spatial patterns of urban growth. A morpho-structural approach2020

    • Author(s)
      Perez Joan・Ornon Alexandre・Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

      Volume: onlinefirst Issue: 8 Pages: 2402-2417

    • DOI

      10.1177/2399808320974377

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Variography and Morphometry for Classifying Building Centroids: Protocol, Data and Script2020

    • Author(s)
      Perez Joan・Ornon Alexandre・Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications

      Volume: - Pages: 415-424

    • DOI

      10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_30

    • ISBN
      9783030588106, 9783030588113
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Size distribution of building lots and density of buildings and road networks: theoretical derivation based on Gibrat’s law and empirical study of downtown districts in Tokyo2020

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki・Asami Yasushi
    • Journal Title

      International Regional Science Review

      Volume: 43(3) Issue: 3 Pages: 229-253

    • DOI

      10.1177/0160017619826270

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report 2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 最近隣距離が短すぎず最大近隣距離が長すぎない点密度2020

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      2020年日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会春季研究発表会アブストラクト集

      Volume: - Pages: 90-91

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The relationship between participation of older adults in hobby clubs and sports groups and density of neighborhood facilities2019

    • Author(s)
      金洪稷・樋野公宏・薄井宏行・花里真道・高木大資・近藤尚己・近藤克則
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan

      Volume: 54 Issue: 3 Pages: 1490-1495

    • DOI

      10.11361/journalcpij.54.1490

    • NAID

      130007741937

    • ISSN
      0916-0647, 2185-0593
    • Year and Date
      2019-10-25
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Location of the hail-and-ride bus sections to minimize total travel time2019

    • Author(s)
      山本和也・薄井宏行・浅見泰司
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan

      Volume: 54 Issue: 3 Pages: 688-695

    • DOI

      10.11361/journalcpij.54.688

    • NAID

      130007742071

    • ISSN
      0916-0647, 2185-0593
    • Year and Date
      2019-10-25
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Reconsidering Definition of Fire-Inextinguishable Area2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan

      Volume: 54 Issue: 1 Pages: 64-71

    • DOI

      10.11361/journalcpij.54.64

    • NAID

      130007636589

    • ISSN
      0916-0647, 2185-0593
    • Year and Date
      2019-04-25
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Statistical distribution of building lot depth: theoretical and empirical investigation of downtown districts in Tokyo2019

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

      Volume: 46(8) Issue: 8 Pages: 1499-1516

    • DOI

      10.1177/2399808319840366

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A bottom-up approach for delineating urban areas minimizing the connection cost of built clusters: Comparison with top-down-based densely inhabited districts2019

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

      Volume: 77 Pages: 101363-101363

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101363

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Building height distribution under zoning regulation: theoretical derivation based on Gibrat’s Law and allometric scaling analysis2019

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      The 21st European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG), Book of Abstracts

      Volume: - Pages: 211-212

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] DENSITY OF RESTING PLACES AND MAXIMUM CONTINUOUS WALKING DISTANCE OF ELDERLY PERSONS2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・樋野公宏
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)

      Volume: 84 Issue: 762 Pages: 1779-1787

    • DOI

      10.3130/aija.84.1779

    • NAID

      130007696867

    • ISSN
      1340-4210, 1881-8161
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 都市は本当にスポンジ化しているのか:千葉県を対象に2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      CSIS DAYS 2019 全国共同利用研究発表大会 研究アブストラクト集

      Volume: - Pages: 42-42

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 都市計画の基礎理論としての建物棟数密度と道路延長密度2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      2019年度日本建築学会大会(北陸) 建築計画部門研究懇談会「建築・都市・農村計画研究者の方法論的転換 ─若手研究者・実務家はいかに社会的課題と向き合っているか─」資料集

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 最大近隣距離分布の導出と第6近隣距離分布との比較2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      2019年日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会秋季研究発表会アブストラクト集

      Volume: - Pages: 190-191

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 敷地の規模・形状の多様性と法則性-道路延長密度と建物棟数密度を基礎とする都市空間の性能規定化への示唆-2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      日本建築学会 多世代共創社会に向けた建築・都市システム [若手奨励] 特別研究委員会最終報告書

      Volume: - Pages: 25-28

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report 2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Effect of Building Density Reduction on Fire Spreading Risk Reduction2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・寺木彰浩
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan

      Volume: 53 Issue: 3 Pages: 1507-1514

    • DOI

      10.11361/journalcpij.53.1507

    • NAID

      130008162502

    • ISSN
      0916-0647, 2185-0593
    • Year and Date
      2018-10-25
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Estimation of geometric route distance from its topological distance: application to narrow road networks in Tokyo2018

    • Author(s)
      Usui, H.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geographical Systems

      Volume: 20(4) Issue: 4 Pages: 387-412

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10109-018-0276-3

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Statistical distribution of building lot frontage: Application for Tokyo downtown districts2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Usui
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geographical Systems

      Volume: 20 Issue: 3 Pages: 295-316

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10109-018-0268-3

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report 2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] CONTINUOUS WALKING DISTANCE AND CRITERIA FOR DENSITY OF RESTING PLACES2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・樋野公宏
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)

      Volume: 83 Issue: 748 Pages: 1049-1056

    • DOI

      10.3130/aija.83.1049

    • NAID

      130007386364

    • ISSN
      1340-4210, 1881-8161
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] EFFECT OF VARIATION OF URBAN BLOCK PATTERNS ON VARIATION OF URBAN BLOCK SIZES2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)

      Volume: 83 Issue: 745 Pages: 475-482

    • DOI

      10.3130/aija.83.475

    • NAID

      130006588761

    • ISSN
      1340-4210, 1881-8161
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report 2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 休憩施設の密度と最大継続歩行距離 -東京駅および大手町駅周辺地区を対象に-2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・樋野公宏
    • Journal Title

      地理情報システム学会講演論文集

      Volume: 27

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 都市形態における多様性のなかの法則性2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      2018年度日本建築学会大会(東北) 多世代共創社会の構成「軸」とその分析「スケール」パネルディスカッション資料集

      Volume: none Pages: 45-46

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 延焼確率の確率密度関数と建物棟数密度2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・寺木彰浩・浅見泰司
    • Journal Title

      2018年日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会春季研究発表会アブストラクト集

      Volume: none Pages: 110-111

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report 2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 継続歩行距離と休憩施設の密度基準 ―東京駅および大手町駅周辺地区を対象に―2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行,樋野公宏
    • Journal Title

      日本建築学会計画系論文集

      Volume: 83

    • NAID

      130007386364

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Size distribution of urban blocks in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region: estimation by urban block density and road width on the basis of normative plane tessellation2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Usui, Yasushi, Asami
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Geographical Information Science

      Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Pages: 120-139

    • DOI

      10.1080/13658816.2017.1384550

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 道路延長と街区総数2017

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      地理情報システム学会講演論文集

      Volume: 26

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] GIS操作法の教育の現状と課題 -東京大学工学部都市工学科の演習におけるArcGISとQGISの同時教育を通じて-2017

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・樋野公宏・真鍋陸太郎
    • Journal Title

      地理情報システム学会講演論文集

      Volume: 26

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 継続歩行距離と休憩施設の密度基準2017

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Journal Title

      2017年日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会秋季研究発表会アブストラクト集

      Volume: none Pages: 176-177

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Variation in building heights under zoning regulations of building coverage ratio and floor area ratio: theoretical and empirical investigation of downtown districts in Tokyo2020

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Organizer
      International Seminar on Urban Form 2020
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 建物壁面間の距離の最大値分布と最小値分布2020

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Organizer
      第29回地理情報システム学会研究発表大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 最近隣距離が短すぎず最大近隣距離が長すぎない点密度2020

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Organizer
      2020年日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会春季研究発表会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report 2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Building height distribution under zoning regulation: theoretical derivation based on Gibrat’s Law and allometric scaling analysis2019

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Organizer
      The 21st European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Optimization of building density and road network density: in terms of the variation of building lot sizes and shapes2019

    • Author(s)
      Usui Hiroyuki
    • Organizer
      International Seminar on Urban Form 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 路線バスにおける総所要時間最小化によるフリー乗降区間の配置 -横浜市青葉区東急バスみたけ台線への応用-2019

    • Author(s)
      山本和也・薄井宏行・浅見泰司
    • Organizer
      日本都市計画学会 第54回学術研究論文発表会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 高齢者の趣味活動・スポーツ参加と近隣施設密度の関係 -名古屋市におけるJAGESのパネルデータを用いて-2019

    • Author(s)
      金洪稷・樋野公宏・薄井宏行・花里真道・高木大資・近藤尚己・近藤克則
    • Organizer
      日本都市計画学会 第54回学術研究論文発表会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 都市は本当にスポンジ化しているのか:千葉県を対象に2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Organizer
      CSIS DAYS 2019 全国共同利用研究発表大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 最大近隣距離分布の導出と第6近隣距離分布との比較2019

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Organizer
      2019年日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会秋季研究発表会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Are patterns of vacant building lots random? Empirical study in Chiba prefecture, the suburbs of Tokyo2018

    • Author(s)
      Usui, H.
    • Organizer
      Urban Transitions 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Comparison of city boundaries based on population density aggregated in census-bureau-imposed units and natural cities of grouping buildings2018

    • Author(s)
      Usui, H.
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Spatial Analysis and Modeling 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Statistical distribution for building lot depth2018

    • Author(s)
      Usui, H.
    • Organizer
      The 2018 EPB Symposium on Urban Systems Design
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 休憩施設の密度と最大継続歩行距離 -東京駅および大手町駅周辺地区を対象に-2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・樋野公宏
    • Organizer
      第27回地理情報システム学会研究発表大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 建物棟数密度の減少による延焼確率の減少効果―正方形敷地の仮定に基づく延焼確率分布の導出及び密集市街地における延焼リスク評価への応用―2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井 宏行, 寺木 彰浩
    • Organizer
      日本都市計画学会第53回学術研究論文発表会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Statistical distribution for building lot depth2018

    • Author(s)
      Hiroyuki Usui
    • Organizer
      the 2018 EPB Symposium: Urban Systems Design
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 延焼確率の確率密度関数と建物棟数密度2018

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・寺木彰浩・浅見泰司
    • Organizer
      2018年日本オペレーションズ・リサーチ学会春季研究発表会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 道路延長と街区総数2017

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Organizer
      地理情報システム学会第26回学術研究発表大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] GIS操作法の教育の現状と課題 -東京大学工学部都市工学科の演習におけるArcGISとQGISの同時教育を通じて-2017

    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行・樋野公宏・真鍋陸太郎
    • Organizer
      地理情報システム学会第26回学術研究発表大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
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    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Organizer
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    • Related Report
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    • Author(s)
      薄井宏行
    • Total Pages
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    • Publisher
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    • ISBN
      4772220291
    • Related Report
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