2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A study on the inductivemeasures and assessment for the formulation of compact cities considering residential preferences

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21510051
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Environmental impact assessment/Environmental policy
Research Institution	Ritsumeikan University
Principal Investigator	SHIMADA Koji 立命館大学, 経済学部, 教授 (70367986)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2012
Keywords	コンパクトシティ / 居住選好 / プロビット分析 / 宅地評価 / ヘドニック法 / 環境負荷 / シミュレーション
Research Abstract	This study explored to provide policy-makers with scientific evidences to consider a possible policy and measures to induce compact cities at national, prefectural and city level by analyzing the relation among land-house-household features, residential preferences and residential land prices. As a result, it is shown that substantial numbers of mid and senior aged households who live in independent houses in suburbs where are inconvenient for transport, shopping and medical service accessare willing to relocate to urban center areas. The finding suggests a possibility that appropriate policy and measures targeting those households would promote to attract population to the center of cities. The study also shows quantitatively that compact city policies would contribute to reduce environmental burden.

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