City System as a Location Factor

Abstract

Suppose that a manufacturing firm has planned to establish a new factory and searches for the factory’s location; then, it starts to set the location prospective area (LPA) within a large geographical space.

Appendix: Elements of the Seven Items Composing Social Health

• (a) Economic base:

  • 1. Prefectural income per person, \1000.

  • 2. Value of manufactured goods shipments, etc., \100 million.

  • 3*. Unemployment rate, both sexes.

  • 4*. Regional difference index of consumer prices, Tokyo = 100.

  • 5. Index of financial potential, prefecture.

  • 6. Starting salary, senior high school graduates, month, male and female, \1000.

  • 7. Salary of part-time worker, hour, female, \1.

• (b) Education:

  • 8. Elementary school pupil, per teacher.

  • 9. Exercise ground area of pupil, elementary schools, per pupil, m².

  • 10. Entrance capacity index of colleges and universities.

  • 11. Ratio of people having completed up to colleges and universities, %.

• (c) Dwelling:

  • 12. Ratio of owned houses, %.

  • 13. Dwelling rooms, per dwelling,

  • 14*. Monthly rent, owned by private corporation, per m², \1000.

  • 15. Ratio of households covered by city gas supply system,%.

  • 16. Diffusion rate of sewerage, %.

  • 17. Ratio of forest area, %.

  • 18. Area of public parks per capita, m².

  • 19. Ratio of major roads paved, %.

  • 20. Retail stores excluding eating and drinking places etc., per 1000 persons.

  • 21. Eating and drinking places, per 1000 persons.

  • 22. Sports facilities, per 1,000,000 persons.

• (d) Health:

  • 23. Physicians working at medical establishments, per 100,000 persons.

  • 24. Beds in general hospitals, per 100,000 persons.

  • 25. Dental clinics, per 100,000 persons.

  • 26. Beds for mental diseases, per 100,000 persons.

  • 27. Ambulances clinics, per 100,000 persons.

• (e) Welfare:

  • 28. Homes for the aged, per 100,000 persons, 65 years old and over.

  • 29. Rehabilitation facilities for physically disabled persons, per 1,000,000 persons.

  • 30. Child welfare institutions, per 100,000 persons.

  • 31. Welfare expenditure per capita, prefecture + municipality, \1000.

  • 32. Social welfare expenditure per capita, prefecture + municipality, \1000.

  • 33. Social welfare expenditure for aged person per capita 65 years old and over, prefecture + municipality, \1000.

• (f) Safety:

  • 34*. Traffic accidents, per 100,000 persons.

  • 35*. Persons killed or injured by fires, per 100,000 persons.

  • 36. Fire engines and cars existing, per 100,000 persons.

  • 37. Police men, per1000 persons.

  • 38*. Recognitions of criminal offences, per 1000 persons.

  • 39*. Death by accidents, per 100,000 persons.

  • 40*. Soot and smoke emitting facilities.

  • 41*. General dust discharging facilities.

• (g) Social unrest:

  • 42*. Cases indicted for drug law, per 100,000 persons.

  • 43*. Cases of grievance against pollution, per 100,000 persons.

  • 44*. Rate of divorces, per 1000 persons, %.

  • 45*. Suicides, per 100,000 persons.

  • 46*. Ration of long-term absences from junior high school students due to refusal to attend school 30 days and more for a school year, per 1000 students.

    (The mark “*” denotes that the element of which value is lower, its score becomes higher.)