The Role of Railway Services in Sustainable Urban Development
Kobe City is a metropolis including large suburbs, where housing communities have been developed for many years. People have been recently moving to the urban areas and the suburbs are losing their power to attract population. At the same time, many blocks of high-rise flats have being built near railway stations adjoining town centers, and are drawing people of all generations. Residents with different lifestyle preferences are making good use of town centers and city centers based on effective railway services to live together happily in a household as well as the same flats. Thus railway services can play an essential role in sustainable urban development.
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households in the Netherlands. Thela Thesis, 1999, pp. 14-16.
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reurbanization." In: Pddison R (ed). Handbook of urban studies, Sage
Publications, 2001, pp. 143-161.
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(http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/english/ knowledge/shrinkage0405.html)
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Residents- Behaviors in Kobe City-s Stagnant Suburbs", Working paper,
no.214, Sept. 2007, Research Institute for Economics and Business
Administration, University of Hyogo.
[5] HEMCRI (Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute)
"Research on a new trend of habitation in the city centers of Kobe and
Hanshin District (in Japanese)," 2002.
[6] PPS6: Planning for Town Centres, 2005.
(http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/1
47399.C.)
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sustainable development." In: K. Williams, E. Burton, M. Jenks (eds).
Achieving sustainable urban form. E & FN Spon, 2000, pp. 275-287.
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Conclusions,” in K. Williams, E. Burton, M. Jenks (eds). Achieving
sustainable urban form, E & FN Spon, 2000, pp. 347-355.
[9] J. Ge, K. Hokao, “Research on residential lifestyles in Japanese cities
from the viewpoints of residential preference, residential choice and
residential satisfaction,” Landscape and Urban Planning, no. 78, 2006, pp.
165-178.
[10] T. Garling, M. Friman, “A psychological approach to the study of
residential choice and satisfaction,” in Residential environments: Choice,
satisfaction, and behavior. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Connecticut,
London, 2002, pp. 55-80.
[11] K. Shoji, Kitamura R. (ed), Posutomotarizeishon (in Japanese),
Gakugeishuppannsha, 2001, pp. 67- 94.
[12] M. L. Senior, C. J. Webster, N. E. Blank, “Residential relocation and
sustainable urban form: Statistical analyses of owner-occupiers’
preferences,” International Planning Studies. vol. 11, 2006, pp. 41
[13] E. Talen, “Traditional Urbanism Meets Residential Affluence: An
Analysis of the Variability of Suburban Preference,” Journal of the
American Planning Association, vol.67, no.2, Spring. 2001, pp. 199-216.
[14] B. Kochan, “Squeezing Suburbia,” Planning, London: Sept., 2007, pp.
16-17.
[15] H. Titheridge, S. Hall, D. Banister, “Assessing the sustainability of urban
development polices,” in K. Williams, E. Burton, M. Jenks (eds),
Achieving sustainable urban form. E & FN Spon, 2000, pp. 149-159.
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