- 著者
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山鹿 誠次
- 出版者
- The Association of Japanese Geographers
- 雑誌
- 地理学評論 (ISSN:00167444)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.32, no.1, pp.35-41, 1959-01-01 (Released:2008-12-24)
- 参考文献数
- 3
- 被引用文献数
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The writer has studied the process by which the city functions, developing towards the urban fringes, incited the urbanization of suburbs. Special hospitals for the patients of such diseases as tuburculosis, mental disease and infectious diseases seek their sites in the suburbs of the metroplis, because there they can get capacious grounds, quiet environment and fresh air. When we see the distribution of the special hospitals in Tokyo, we find that most of the newly established hospitals are situated in the urban fringe, and some of the older ones built in the inner region, have removed centrifugally to the outshirts. Kiyose town is in the western suburbs of Tokyo, and on the Musashino Upland. It was formerly a farm-village, , but since 1331 many tuburculosis hospitals have been established in the pine forests of the south-western area of this town, and so Kiyose has become one of the largest hospital quarters in Japan, having 14 hospitals, 4, 821 beds, and 25% of its whole ares is covered by hospitals. Consequently, the population increased rapidly and the shopping street developed between the, hospital quarters and the railway station. Moreover many residential houses were recently built, and this town has also grown into one of the residential districts of Tokyo. Through the study of Kiyose and some other hospital quarters in Tokyo, the writer has come to the conclusion that there are some grades in the relations between the special hospitals and the urbanization in the metropolis. The grades are as follows: (1) Special hospitals were first established in the innermost region of the metropolis, but with the development of the metropolis, they moved to the outer regions, or were turned into general hospitals. (2) In the region next to the former innermost region of the metropolis, the hospitals which were established in the days when the region were the suburbs are now in the residential districts which have developed since their establishment. (3) In the next region, urbanization is in advance, and there the hospital quarter and the residential district are contiguous to each other. (4) In the outermost region of the metropolis, hospitals are situated apart from other establishments, and the residential district has not advanced into this region yet. Kiyose belongs to the third grade.