2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Housing supply and residents' characteristics in the suburban area of Yangon
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19K01181
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 04020:Human geography-related
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| Research Institution | Chugoku Gakuen University |
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Principal Investigator |
HINO MASATERU 中国学園大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 名誉教授(移行) (30156608)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | 都市化 / 居住分化 / 人口密度 / 人口センサス / ヤンゴン |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Using data from the 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census, this study examined the characteristics of residential differentiation in the Yangon metropolitan area. Although the development of new town was deployed in the 1990s, the suburbanization was limited. The population density distribution in Yangon exhibits a significant drop in population density along with distance from the high-density central area. Moreover, the concentration of white-collar workers in the central area is remarkable. The reasons for this are as follows. First, a large disparity in the level of infrastructure development between the central part of Yangon and the suburbs. Second, the current state of the urban public transportation system relies largely on buses, resulting in significant time loss for commuting. Therefore, it is supposed that the movement of white-collar workers living in central areas to the suburbs did not appear.
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| Free Research Field |
人文地理学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
1990年代，東南アジアの都市化研究は従来の過剰都市化論からFDIに牽引された大都市圏の膨張と新中間層の増大などに特徴づけられる段階に移行したことを取り上げてきた。しかし，ヤンゴンについては，資料の制約もあって，近年まで研究が少なく，バンコクなどと同様の経過をたどっているのかどうか不明であった。2014年に31年ぶりに人口・住宅センサス調査が実施され，大都市の空間構造を統計に基づいて分析することが可能になった。本研究はそれに応えたものである。加えて，ヤンゴン周辺農村部のインフラ整備の遅れがホワイトカラー層の郊外移動を制約する条件になっていると指摘した点もオリジナルな見解と言える。
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