Urban Growth Analysis in Postwar Japan: Fact Findings on the Distribution of Urban Population

N Sakashita
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N Sakashita: Institute of Social and Economic Research, ÅŒsaka University, Suita, ÅŒsaka 565, Japan

Environment and Planning A, 1979, vol. 11, issue 10, 1105-1114

Abstract: This paper is an excerpt from a book written by three authors, Sakashita, Asano, and Irie (1979), in which a multidimensional analysis of the urban growth in postwar Japan has been made. After a brief introduction, an analysis that involves the use of several kinds of Hoover indices for the set of all Japanese cities over the period 1955–1975 is made, with a view to demonstrating the strong tendency of the population to concentrate in the metropolitan area. Application of the theoretical lognormal and Pareto distributions is then discussed. The paper closes with a theoretical consideration that coordinates the observations presented.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1068/a111105

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