Effect of the creation of a comfortable urban environment for the accumulation of population - Osaka city as a case study

Modern cities, having suffered from the bitter experience of pollution which caused population outflow over many years, began to create comfortable urban environments in order to encourage the settlement of people, which serves as the source of urban vitality. This study clarified the effectiveness toward this end in order to verify both quantitatively and qualita􏰀 tively the achievement resulting from the creation of a comfortable urban environment in the case of Osaka city, by intro􏰀 ducing environmental indicators. It thereby demonstrated that populations have been re􏰀accumulated at the center of modern cities, which have become more convenient and comfortable.