Is there a convergence between urban areas and rural ones: Considerations from research reviews and case studies

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K01171
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 04020:Human geography-related
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: KAJITA Shin 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (40336251)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 都市地理学 / 農村地理学 / 都市ー農村関係論 / モビリティ / 関係性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Urban geography and urban studies come to reflect recent technological and social changes and to discuss cross-bordering permeation of urbanities. On the other hand, rural geography and rural studies point out that ruralities become more and more socially constructed and that non rural natives like ex-urban migrants come to commit its formation. Based on these trends, we took a case study on Morioka urban area on the purpose of understanding changing relations between urban area and rural ones. After the late 1990s, Takizawa village, neighboring north to Morioka city, emphasize its rural characteristics and selected to be an independent city, rejecting an amalgamation offer from Morioka city. We concluded that this process is progressed as a result of socially reconstructed of the Takizawa’s rurality.

Free Research Field

人文地理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は，近年の技術的・社会的変化の下での都市ー農村関係の再構築に関する学術的な議論に寄与するものであるとともに，地方創生やデジタル田園都市構想などの政策議論に対して，現代社会の文脈に則した都市と農村の共生関係の再構築に向けた指針を示すものである．