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[32] Classification of the 67 Wards of the Kanto Metropolitan Area Based on the Relationship Between Urban Centrality and the Location Characteristics of Agricultural Land

- Towards the development of a planning method for agricultural land

○Mei Komatsu¹, Takashi Ariga¹ (1. Faculty of Science Engineering, Waseda University)

Keywords:Urban Agricultural Land, Urban Centrality, Location Characteristics of Agricultural Land

This study describes the need to develop a planning approach for agricultural land for conservation and utilisation of agricultural land with urban residents as the bearers, according to urban centrality and the location of existing agricultural land. It then classified 67 wards in the Kanto metropolitan area by overlaying four typologies based on urban centrality and four typologies based on the location characteristics of agricultural land. As a result, the wards could be classified into 13 categories, and Tama-ku, Kawasaki was positioned as an area with a high overall similarity to the three wards in the city centre, but with a relatively large amount of agricultural land, and where agricultural land is located in close proximity to both urban and natural infrastructure, i.e. in locations important for the residential life of urban residents.