[HTML][HTML] Urban transformation and population decline in old New Towns in the Osaka Metropolitan Area

H Kato, A Takizawa - Cities, 2024‏ - Elsevier
In shrinking cities, old New-Towns have emerged as an urban issue in recent years as the
population ages. New-Towns were quiet residential areas that flourished as neighborhoods …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in mobility amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Sapporo City, Japan: an investigation through the relationship between spatiotemporal population …

TV Ha, T Asada, M Arimura - Transportation research interdisciplinary …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
By the end of 2021, the Omicron variant of coronavirus disease 2019 had become the
dominant cause of a worldwide pandemic crisis. This demands a deeper analysis to support …

Multidimensional factors correlated with population changes according to city size in Japan

H Kato - Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Many developed countries need to plan urban policies based on multidimensional factors
related to population change. However, empirical research has been inconsistent with …

[HTML][HTML] Risk Index of Regional Infection Expansion of COVID-19: Moving Direction Entropy Study Using Mobility Data and Its Application to Tokyo

Y Ohsawa, Y Sun, K Sekiguchi… - JMIR Public Health …, 2024‏ - publichealth.jmir.org
Background Policies, such as stay home, bubbling, and stay with your community,
recommending that individuals reduce contact with diverse communities, including families …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining the Relationship Between the Per Capita Availability Level of Services Land Uses and the Number of Covid-19 Cases in Urban Areas

M Pourhasanzadeh, G Ahmadi, F Aram - Regional Science Policy & …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Considering the crucial role played by the services land uses in cities, the provision of
adequate availability of these land uses in different parts of the city and their fair distribution …

Human mobility and medical costs of lifestyle-related diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study in Japan

H Kato, A Takizawa - Journal of Transport & Health, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on human mobility caused health
problems. Therefore, it is valuable to evaluate the human mobility restrictions during the …

Public holidays increased the transmission of COVID-19 in Japan, 2020-2021: a mathematical modelling study

J Qiao, H Nishiura - Epidemiology and Health, 2024‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
OBJECTIVES Although the role of specific holidays in modifying transmission dynamics of
infectious diseases has received some research attention, the epidemiological impact of …

Covid, cities, and sustainability: a reflection on the legacy of a global pandemic

P Newman - npj Urban Sustainability, 2023‏ - nature.com
Covid, cities, and sustainability: a reflection on the legacy of a global pandemic | npj Urban
Sustainability Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser …

An analysis of the spatio-temporal behavior of COVID-19 patients using activity trajectory data

X Shen, H Yuan, W Jia, Y Li, L Zhao - Heliyon, 2023‏ - cell.com
During the global pandemic, COVID-19 patients' activity trajectories and actions emerge as
revelatory conduits elucidating their spatiotemporal behavior and transmission dynamics …