Geographical Studies on the Rehabilitation of Rirality in Urban Fringes

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24501293
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Geography
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Kikuchi Toshio 首都大学東京, 都市環境科学研究科, 教授 (50169827)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 大都市近郊農村 / ルーラリティ / リハビリテーション / 環境資源 / 上部構造 / 下部構造 / ボンディング / バンディング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Rapid urbanization, depopulation and aging of society are causing a high impact on/damaging rurality by weakening rural landscapes, rural communities and rural activities in urban fringe, hinterlands and metropolitan marginal areas of developed countries. A model has been created to rehabilitate such unhealthy/damaged rurality.　In concrete, combing the "bonding" as the "substructure" within a rural community and space with its "banding" as the "superstructure" with outside communities and spaces enables co-existence between rurality and urbanity which in result become the mechanism for rehabilitation of unhealthy/damaged rurality.

Free Research Field

地理学