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This chapter presents how spatial network adjustment on transportation infrastructure can provide sufficient accessibility to the market and to the society. In particular, the argument focuses on a situation when a change of social dimension, such as long-run population decline, is observed. Since such areas face insufficient economies of scale to engage economic activity, it is also necessary to adjust the organisation of market areas. This methodological framework leads on to regional policy for establishing more effective spatial planning and design under the condition where local governments face severe budget constraint to provide public services.
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A preliminary version of this article was partly presented at the Autumn Meeting of the Japan Association for Applied Economics in Saitama, November 2015, and was partially supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI, Grant Number 25780179, and the final version was supported by the Grant Number 16K03643.
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Nakamura, D. (2019). Reorganisation of the Spatial Economic System in a Population Decreasing Region. In: Ye, X., Liu, X. (eds) Cities as Spatial and Social Networks. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95351-9_11
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