TITLE:
A Method to Evaluate an Urban Area by Using the Model That Calculates a Number of Facilities from an Area and a Population
AUTHORS:
Noriaki Sakamoto
KEYWORDS:
Facility Density, High-Rise Apartment, Urban Studies, Urban Environments, Mathematical Model
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.4 No.4,
November
3,
2016
ABSTRACT: This paper presents 1) a new mathematical model improved from a conventional
model that calculates a number of facility from an area and a population in a town
and, 2) by using this model, a method to evaluate the enrichment (in other words,
convenience or enough) of facilities in the town where many high-rise apartments
have been built (the area is hereinafter referred to as the high-rise apartment town).
The conventional model uses only a nighttime population, but this paper considers a
daytime population in addition to the nighttime population. Also, there has not been
the method to evaluate the enrichment of facilities in a town, but we can evaluate it
using this model. We apply this method to 23 special wards in Tokyo and the highrise
apartment towns, the results prove the effectiveness of the proposed method.