More accurate information available about urban and rural areas
[2023-11-18 03:53:48]
Due to the reform of local governments, early classification based on administrative division did not fully explain the development of various types of fields. In particular, as the scale of the city expands, there are cases where the same city contains regions with urban characteristics and regions with rural characteristics.
"When measuring urban population density at the city level, it is possible that the population density of Tampere may not meet EU standard urban standards," explains Ville Helminen, a fellow from the Finnish Environment Institute.
In the new classification, the area is divided into 7 different categories. For example, this classification indicates that 70% of the population of Finland lives in urban areas. However, these areas account for only about 5% of the total area of the country. The urban population density is 1,251 people per square kilometer, whereas in early classification the urban population density was only 160 people per square kilometer.
Nearly 70% of Finland's low-population rural areas have a population of only 308,000, or 6% of the population. About 400,000 Finnish people live in rural areas near the city. Commuting in these areas is important for working in cities and towns. Approximately 40% of the 66 million rural residents live in rural areas. The central part of rural areas is characterized by relatively dense land use and industrial diversification.
The population increase in Finland is mainly concentrated in urban areas and surrounding areas. The redefinition of urban areas increased by 256,000 between 2000 and 2012, 78,700 in the suburbs and 20,000 in rural areas of urban areas.
The new city - rural classification is done by geographic information techniques and the calculations are performed mainly using a highly accurate 250 x 250 m grid. Source data includes population, labor force, work path, building information, road network and land use data. Based on this, variables that describe quantity, density, efficiency, accessibility, strength, diversity and direction are calculated.
"Even in Europe, this classification is unique because a wide range of basic data can be used for new inspections and calculations.The Finnish data quality is very high, the Finnish Institute for Environmental Studies is a system and method for using geographic information from a long-term perspective We developed, "explains Ville Helminen. Most of the classifications were done at the Finnish environmental laboratory, including barrier-free computing at the University of Oulu Geography. This work was ordered by the Ministry of Employment and Economy and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Rural areas may develop randomly based on the natural vegetation and fauna that can be used in that area, but urban residential areas are appropriate and planned residence based on the urbanization process. In many cases, rural areas attracted attention from the government and development agencies, and changed to urban areas. Rural communities rely heavily on natural resources and events, but people in urban areas benefit from human progress in science and technology and do not rely on natural day-to-day functions. Business is open late at night in urban areas, but the rural sunset means that the end of the day is near.
Rural areas are against urban areas. Rural areas, often referred to as "countries", have low population density and large undeveloped land. Usually, the difference between rural and urban areas is clear. However, in developed countries like Japan where the population is large, the difference is becoming increasingly obvious. In the United States, settlements with more than 2,500 residents are defined as cities. In Japan, the population density far exceeds the population density of the United States, and more than 30,000 residents are considered as cities.
Definition: This variable indicates whether population weighted center of gravity of the census area is in urban