2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on the change in the metropolitan suburban region from the viewpoint of diversification of working style
| Project/Area Number |
16520494
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Human geography
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWAGUCHI Taro Meiji Univeristy, School of Arts and Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90195058)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HIROMATSU Satoru Meiji University, School of Political Science and Economics, Professor, 政治経済学部, 教授 (00242925)
NAKAZAWA Takashi Oita University, Faculty of Ecnomics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (70404358)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | suburban region / family type / housing type / working style / Tokyo Metropolitan Area |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to demonstrate several aspects of the change in the metropolitan suburban region and to have some perspectives on the future of the region. The suburban region is in a significant turning point because the diversification of demographic composition and the lifestyle shift both induced by the generation transition from the "first suburban generation" to the "second" has converted homogeneous characteristics of the region. Therefore, we analyzed statistics on the family status, the housing types and the working conditions of Tokyo Metropolitan Area and showed several maps of the spatial structure of the area in chronological order. Furthermore, we conducted a questionnaire survey and an interview investigation at a typical suburban residential section and grasped the problem concerning residential sustainability of the section.
A large amount of young population flowed into metropolises from everywhere in the country after World War II. Getting marriage and
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having children, they transferred into the suburban region to have their own home and formed typical suburban families ; owner-occupier nuclear family with office worker head and full-time housewife. However, such prescriptive families have decreased in the children of the above generation and the diversification of the population characteristics of the suburban region have advanced. Namely, the homogeneous, uniform, prescriptive suburban social characteristics have become weak. In addition, the succession of the residential property to their children does not always succeed even in the suburban residential section that the social reproduction and the conservation of property value went well. Therefore, it is more likely that not a small amount of suburban residential sections will decay, decline and/or disappear for the foreseeable future through the generation transition. In the era of the population decrease, it is indispensable to encourage positive residential relocation because spontaneous suburban expansion is no longer in operation. Less
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