Research into Changes and Restructuring in Suburban Areas of Major Cities in Developing Asian Nations

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370923
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Sugiyama Jogakuen University
• Principal Investigator: Ji Zengmin 椙山女学園大学, 文化情報学部, 教授 (20278237)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 都市化 / 郊外地域 / 生活再編 / マルチスケール / 新興国 / アジア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research targeted the Jakarta metropolitan area (Indonesia), and the Bangalore metropolitan area (India) as major objectives with the focus on the Shanghai metropolitan area (China), specifically formulated (mapped) suburban regions, elucidated its accrual conditions through detailed investigations on a multi scale. With regards to the research method, changes that occurred in the housing utilization and ownership status, and projection to its space were analyzed by linking it with the process of life recovery which the indigenous farmers, migrant workers, and citizens who live in suburban regions (a method to visualize and　trace the life recovery, housing utilization and fluctuation of ownership status was developed). Furthermore, functions that suburban regions must bear in the metropolitan area and development policy for sustainable regions were concretely presented.

Free Research Field

人文学