Centralization of Tokyo and Process of social change in surounding districts

1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 06301019
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 総合
• Research Field: 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
• Research Institution: TOKYOU GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: HASUMI Otohiko Tokyou Gakugei University, President, 学長 (50014684)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKADA Shigeru Tokyo Gakugei University, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (50137478) ; NISHIYAMA Yaeko Kinjo Gakugei University, Associate Professor, 短大部, 助教授 (10164617) ; NITAGAI Kamon The University of Tokyo, Faculty of letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40020490) ; YOSHIHARA Naoki Tohoku University, Faculty of arts and letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40240345) ; YAZAWA Sumiko Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 文理学部, 教授 (00106296)
• Project Period (FY): 1994 – 1996
• Keywords: urban community / local policy / local goverment / community change / community reformation / metropolitan centralization

Research Abstract

Report of this research is consist of 2 parts. In part 1, the results of two questionarie surveys are analyzed : one on the city life in Chiyoda, Setagaya and Ohta cities, and the other on the relations of medium and small enterprize and local community in Ohta city. In former survey, following findings are presented : desier of many of the residents in metropolitan districts, to continue to live in their living place, is hard to be fulfilled. Partly because of shortage of convenience in daily life, brought from the declining of shop and service agencies, and partly because high land value and land-and-housing problems, inadequate governmental policies on these problems. Findings in latter survey are as follows : from the analysis of network between medium and small enterprizes and their local groups, they are expecting to continue their enterprize and residence in local community, and they want these local community should be reformed to mixed area of house and factory.
In the second part of the report, trends of local development policy and community planning lead by local government in Japan was analyzed, as the sociological study of community social planning, based on the sociological field study of local community. In this report, tracing on the broadening process of the community planning from the plan focused on industrial development to the many sided plan centering on the improvement of the living environments, the meaning and problems of recent local community social planning was analyzed.