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Title: Building a Database of the Small Area Statistics about Population of the Six Major Cities in Japan: A First Step to Build a Historical GIS Database of Modern Japanese Cities

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This paper aims to build a database of the small area statistics about population of the six major cities in Japan and show how it can be used as the first step to build the historical GIS of modern Japanese cities. This database utilizes statistical materials about the National Censuses and the regional censuses from 1908 to 1990 in the six cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. The database contains the small area statistics and the boundary data corresponding to them. A case study about population changes in Tokyo from 1908 to 1990 suggests that spatiotemporal analyses of these cities using the historical GIS could lead to new findings in urban studies in Japan.

Url: https://ipsj.ixsq.nii.ac.jp/ej/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=79403&item_no=1&page_id=13&block_id=8

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Authors: Kirimura, Takashi

Publisher: Kinugasa Research Organization Ritsumeikan University

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Population Data Science

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