AStudy on the Relation between Land Use Regulation and Composition/Mixture Indices in Tokyo WardArea

Abstract

Clarifying how land use change and regulation are related is an important task for establishing land use planning. This study aims to investigate the land use change in Tokyo ward area between 2001 and 2011, according to zoning in terms of land use composition and mixture. First, the increase of residential use and the decrease of industrial use were considerable, and the change within same zoning varied according to prior composition and location. Second, considerable areas of land use transition imply the possibility of change in spatial distribution. Third, the increase of residential use occurred with the increase of quantity of mixture with commercial use in the commercial zone despite a decrease of the strength, but residential zone showed a decrease of the mixture in both strength and quantity. Despite a decrease of industrial use, mixture with residential use did not necessarily decrease regarding adjacency and proximity.