Empirical Study on Urban Settlement Policies and Social Area Structure in Nagoya City

研究的目的是了解名古屋城市聚落政策在当代城市社会结构转型中的发展情况。名古屋市20世纪70年代末开始的城市定居政策，自80年代末以来已成为社会总体规划的重要组成部分。本研究考察了这些政策的历史进程，并对其现状进行了分析。据澄清，它们正在应对中心城市人口增长率的下降，更重要的是，它们针对伴随去工业化和城市人口老龄化而出现的去城市化趋势，以再城市化政策为导向。我们进一步从人口和社会经济维度分析了城市社会结构本身从工业化和城市化阶段、郊区化和服务经济阶段到老龄化和信息化阶段的转变，并证明了它与中心城市社会空间结构的形成和变化有着显著的联系。此外，为了分析城市生活的微观社会结构，我们在四个学区进行了社会网络调查，这些调查被选择来代表我们通过分析城市社会空间结构得出的区域类型。结果，被调查者所处的社会经济、家庭和生态状况对老年前网络的影响是多维的。收集的数据数量巨大，内容丰富。尽管报道的结果有限，但理论上的重点分析将产生丰硕的结果。

The purpose of the research is to understand the development of urban settlement policies in Nagoya City in connection to contemporary transformation of urban social structure. The urban settlement policy started in late 1970s in Nagoya City has become an important element of the general social planning since late 1980s. The research investigated the historical process of the policies and analyzed their current status. It was clarified that they are coping with declining rate of population growth in the central city and, more essentially, they are oriented to re-urbanization policies against the de-urbanization trends accompanied by de-industrialization and aging urban population. We analyzed further the transformation of urban social structure itself in terms of its demographic and socio-economic dimensions from industrialization-and-urbanization phase, via a phase of suburbanization and service economy, to an aging and informational phase ; and demonstrated that it has an significant connection with the formation and change of socio-spatial structure of the central city.Also, in order to analyze micro social structure of urban life, a social network survey was conducted in four school districts which were selected to represesnt the types of districts derived from our analysis of socio-spatial structure of the city. As a result, it was confirmed that presonal networks were affected multi-dimensionallya by socioeconomic, family, and ecological statuses respondents held. Collected data was huge and had affluent contents. Though reported findings were limited, theoretically focused analyzes would yield fruitful findings.