In Myanmar, the Population and Housing Census held in 2014 took place after 31 years since the previous one. Shapefiles for township were also served.?Based on these data, it is possible to analyze the residential differentiation within the Yangon metropolitan region using GIS. As for the urbanization of the Southeast Asia since the 1990s, the concept of extended mega region and new middle class has been presented through studies on Jakarta and Bangkok metropolitan regions. Whether the growth of Yangon following the transformation from socialist economy to market economy in 1988 shows a similar trend or not is an interesting agenda. As a result of the analysis, the expansion of the urbanized area of Yangon was still being primarily limited to within the Yangon City boundary, so its spread can’t be said to have reached to the level equivalent to that of an extended metropolitan region. The population density in the downtown area was extremely high, at over 35,000 people per square kilometer. Many apartments with five to eight floors densely stand in rows alongside the narrow streets there. A large part of the inhabitants are white-collar workers and persons engaging in sales and service activities, with higher educational background. Although the population density gradually declines along the distance from downtown within the city, there is an outstanding drop across the city boundary. It reflects that the suburbanization of housing does not proceed largely beyond the city boundary, excluding a few townships in the outside of the city with industrialization. The development of the urban transportation system and life infrastructure did not largely proceed. Such living conditions are thought to discourage people to move to suburban areas for a good environment.
Mots clés : residential differentiation|housing|suburbanization|occupational structure|Yangon
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