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Japanese Urban System

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Yuji Murayama

    1. Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Japan

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 56)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overview

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 3-7

    3. Study of Urban Systems: Outcomes and Issues

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 9-33

  3. International Urban System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Diffusion of Innovation

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 37-57

    3. Development Process of the East Asian Urban System

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 59-97

  4. National Urban System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Regional Structure of the Information Flow

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 101-113

    3. Regional Structure of the Commodity Flow

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 115-134

    4. Accessibility Change in the Japanese Urban System

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 135-153

    5. Spatial Dynamics of Migration in the Japanese Urban System

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 155-170

  5. Regional Urban System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Population Movement

      • Yuji Murayama, Yuichi Hashimoto
      Pages 173-196

  6. Intra-Urban System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Commercial Activities in a Small City

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 199-207

    3. Migration Chain in a Medium City

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 209-225

    4. Land Use Change in Tokyo

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 227-235

    5. Tokyo and Paris: Comparison of Urban Spatial Structure

      • Yuji Murayama
      Pages 237-259

  7. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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About this book

This book is an attempt to explain Japanese regional structure and associated dynamism in terms of urban systems. It is extremely effective to use the urban systems approach to explain the regional changes in today's Japan, which is undergoing changes wrought by economic globalization and the information revolution. This is because the transformation into a service economy has become the key component of the economic activities of cities, linkages are being mutually strengthened, and regional development is being determined by the interdependency of cities. Readers hoping to gain an understanding of the regional geography of Japan may feel that the structure and content of this book are lacking something. However, it is not the intention of this book to systematically paint a total geographical image of Japan within the context of East Asia. Instead, by focusing on urban systems theory, it might be possible to theorize about the factors related to the changing geography of Japan, suchas the growth and decline processes of Japanese urban systems, the strengthening of ties among cities and associated factors, and the expansion of socioeconomic exchanges with cities overseas, from a perspective that is different from the conventional approach.

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  • Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, Japan

    Yuji Murayama

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