福島県本宮町・二本松市を例とする地方町の機能分析

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Local-towns are susceptible to the influence of their surrounding areas, especially in recent days the influence of large cities became stronger. It is an interesting problem to analyse the way in which local-towns adapt themselves to their circumstances. In addition to this, their industrial development in recent years also became an important function. I will explain these aspects taking Motomiya and Nihonmatsu in Fukushima Prefecture as examples. The main objects of this study is their function as service-centers, their relationship with their neighbouring cities in retail trades and in commuting, as well as their industrial production. As the indices of a service-center the author used the development of the regular bus service, the sphere of retail trades, the scale of wholesale shops, and the kinds of administrative offices, schools and hospitals. Motomiya is inferior as the service-center. In retail trades, the influence of Koriyama is penetrating strongly into Motomiyas domain. In commuter-traffics, the commuters from Motomiya (out-commuters) go out chiefly to Koriyama, Fukushima, and Nihonmatsu. So I concluded that Motomiya was under the intense influence of these cities. Nihonmatsu is superior as a service-centre. In retail trade, the influence above-mentioned cities is not so vigorous as to Motomiya. In commuting, the destinations of out-commuters are not only Fukushima and Koriyama but also the neighbouring local-towns and villages. So Nihonmatsu seems less dependent on larger cities. The commuters into local towns (in-commuters) come mostly from their neighbouring villages and are chiefly employed in manufacturing factories or transportational and communicational institutions. From these, I consider that there is a nodal-region having a local town as its functional center. Considering the ratio of in-commuters to total population, the figure of Motomiya is higher than that of Nihonmatsu. This suggests that Motomiya has larger economic capacity to accept in-commuters, which also means that Motomiya has larger industrial productivity. After all, Motomiya is stronger in industrial productivity, and Nihonmatsu as a service-center. I examined, next, how these different characteristics of the two towns are reflected on their urban growths. As the indices of urbanization, I adopted the number of the employees in service occupations (for example, Laundries, Barber shops, Restaurants), and the length of main shopping-streets. Judging from these indices the degree of the urbanization of these two towns seems almost the same. These two towns with their different personalities, have attained about similar degree of urbanization.
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福島県本宮町・二本松市を例とする地方町の機能分析

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